Pistil stitch
How the Pistil stitch is worked, what it is used for, and the stitches that go with it.
- Family
- knot
- Difficulty
- easy
- Thread use (x)Line, knot, detached, couching, edging and composite stitches: cm of thread per cm of stitched line. Filling stitches: cm of thread per square cm of solid cover with all six strands (halve the strands and the figure doubles). Working figures used by the thread length estimator; they include the thread on the back but not starts and ends.
- 4 x
- Used for
- Flower stamens, sprays of dots on stalks, radiating accents.
- How it works
- A French knot on the end of a straight stitch: the thread is wrapped around the needle as for a French knot, but the needle goes down a stitch length away instead of next to the starting point.
- Related stitchesStitches built from this one, or worked the same way
- French knot
Nearby in embroidery stitches29 of 35