Chicken scratch embroidery (also called snowflaking, Tenneriffe lace, or Amish embroidery) is a form of cross-stitch that is done on gingham...
Have you seen this stamp set?? This is Chicken Scratch from Gerda Steiner Designs and I LOVE it! I would dare say it's one of my most favorite sets to date! The images are hysterical and so are the sentiments! Check out the one on the bottom of the above image.... 'this card was made from scratch'! Haha! Totally my sen
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Stitch Explorer 2009. Gingham is 1/8" squares and I used white crochet cotton and green perle #8. I wanted the green to look like leaves and they don't, so I may redo the green part.
I continued to experiment with chicken scratch on the same fabric. This time I made cross stitches with white DMC and laced them ones. Then...
Chicken Scratch is usually worked on gingham check in order to give it the lacy appearance which has made it so popular. Star-like clusters that simulate lace are worked on gingham or gingham-type...
Years ago I bought some Gingham fabric with hearts. I'm not sure what I wanted to make, but now was the time to use it for the first challen...
Yesterday I made the last examples on my Gingham square. For this one I used cotton no. 12 and I laced it with loops. It looks much better w...
My father started to learn embroidery on paper, so I made a needlebook for his birthday. The size is 5 x 5 cm or 2 x 2 inch. The chicken ...
It is so much fun to see the fabric change when I'm adding the lacing in the chicken scratch. The top part only has cross stitches and runni...
y first attempt at chicken scratch embroidery. Fun to stitch!
I used three different colours: white, pale pink and dark pink embroidery thread. Half of the 6 blocks have the white squares open, and half have the deep pink squares open. Blogged about on dianesdecoratingdiary.blogspot.com
soduel.blogspot.com/2010/04/chicken-scratch-cami.html Pattern: Kwik Sew 2498 Misses Camisoles
This band was inspired by this apron. I had to widen my original design as there was too much space between the heart and the initial band I had worked. (cross stitch - no 5, the rest no 8 with one strand of metallic Sulky in the Algerian eyes.
This is the last of my finds from last weekend's trip to Kutztown. The seller who I bought this from had two and the first was traditional c...
I'm dreaming of loops around chicken scratch. In my dreams, they all look perfect. When I wake up some work and some don't. I keep right on going and trying a few more. As you may notice despite the dreams, this is school girl mode with a couple of stitches--rice, fly and reverse fly. I threw in…
This lesson will illustrate how to do, probably, the most common pattern in chicken scratch : the heart. It is advised to go through the thread-fabric-and…
As usual, I'm playing catch up. The good news is that despite my absence online, I've actually been finishing up some projects. We've had...
This one has GOT to be one of my favorites! I love snowflakes, I decorate extensively with them at holiday time (I don't like Santa or reli...
