This can be used as a filling stitch and also as a substitute for cross stitch. Make a horizontal stitch at the top of the shape to be filled. The thread is then brought through at the bottom left-hand corner, looped under and over the horizontal stitch as shown in Fig. 1, and taken through the fabric at the bottom right-hand corner (Fig. 2). The stitches can be worked close together to form a line or fill a shape (Fig. 3) or used individually.
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