Whipped wheel (ribbed spider web)
How the Whipped wheel (ribbed spider web) is worked, what it is used for, and the stitches that go with it.
- Family
- composite
- 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.
- 30 x
- Used for
- A ridged round flower or wheel; works with any number of spokes.
- How it works
- Spokes are laid as for a woven wheel, then the thread is passed back under each spoke in turn as it travels round, so every spoke is whipped and the surface shows raised ribs from the centre out.
- Related stitchesStitches built from this one, or worked the same way
- Woven wheel (woven spider web)
Nearby in embroidery stitches32 of 35