How to do Blanket Stitch
Learn the basics of how to do blanket stitch with this step-by-step guide. You’ll get tips on creating the perfect stitch, what materials you’ll need, and how to use a variety of stitches in your projects. Get ready to add a unique touch to your sewing projects.
Blanket stitch is the stitch most often seen edging blankets, hence the name. But it doesn’t have to be just to stop fabrics from fraying. It can also be a decorative stitch in it own right. Use it as a boarder or as a single line within embroidery projects.
You can also play around with the lines to create different styles of blanket stitch.
To stitch the blanket stitch you first start as if you are stitching a running stitch. Securing you thread with either a loop or a knot at the back of the fabric.
Then if you are working the top edge of the fabric you will stitch right to left.
From point a move the needle to the left and come up at point b.
Do not pull the thread completely through but leave a loop of thread, whilst you position your needle to come up from the back of the fabric and through the loop.
Pull the needle up from the back and through the loop of thread created from the stitch a – b
Tug the thread to ensure it is at the top edge of the fabric and you have a boarder along the top. This is point c at the top. Now bring you needle into the front of the fabric to the left of your previous stitch and insert the needle at point d.
Repeat this process until you have edged your fabric then secure with either a loop of knot at the back of your fabric.
