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 challenge of Stitch Explorer. I started on a 12 inch square with 2 threads of white DMC. I used this tutorial. Then I did the same with red DMC. I tried some cross stitches and made a woven square without the running stitches. The next one I tried was double cross stitch. I laced them diagonal. The second diagonal was woven into the first one. On the left I…

Muddlepud has created some chicken scratch designs, and she’s giving them away! She says, “I’ve decided to encourage others in Blogland to craft so that I might live vicariously t…

Posts about chicken scratch (round/reg.) written by Elizabeth

Just a little house keeping here, so that you can easily find information on chicken scratch / embroidery on gingham here on Needle 'n Thread when you're looking for it! This index will include all articles on Chicken Scratch, including patterns, tutorials, and other information on the technique.

This lesson will demonstrate how to do the embroidery using the different stitches over a border design. It is advised to go through the thread-fabric-and-stitch section of the chicken scratch page before beginning this lesson. It will help you...

Laurie Latour of Future Christian Homemakers is quite an enthusiast when it comes to hand embroidery on gingham. If you have not seen her Gingham Museum on her website, it is worth taking a look at, especially if you are interested in elaborate "chicken scratch" embroidery that is unique and really

I’ve been progressively moving towards discontinuing the use of anything genetically modified. This includes the feed for my chickens. While this may sound…

Scratch grains help to keep chickens warm in the winter by boosting their metabolism as they work to digest the high-fat/carb grains overnight

Following up on last weekend's gingham lace (or chicken scratch) embroidery pattern that I posted for you, I've been having an ongoing discussion on the email sidelines about the pattern and the recent examples of gingham embroidery that I've been sharing here and on my Needle 'n Thread Facebook pag

Chicken Scratch is such a weird name for an embroidery technique! I can only imagine that it came about because this technique of embroidery on gingham involves sharp little stitches ... like chicken's feet maybe? Or maybe some of the stitches look like the hatch marks in the ground after chickens h