a little lesson

chad called while i was at dinner and wanted to know how i do the stem stitch. stem stitch is an embroidery stitch that looks very cool, is also a teensy bit complicated to learn (by "complicated" i mean it takes five minutes to figure out, it just looks hard and is a bit daunting at first), but once you get it, you never really use any other stitch. split stitch is cute too, and what would i be without french knots? but stem gives a cool, ropey look. it's really the main stitch i use.

in any case, i tried to make a tutorial over on flickr so maybe that will help him. if you check it out, let me know if it makes sense, okay? it was sort of hard to write it down.

embroidery:stem stitch