Chicken scratch

One of my all time favorite craft books is The Constance Howard Book of Stitches.…

Snowy, sub-zero winter weather, hurricanes or severe weather of any type present challenges for chicken keepers and their flocks. Whenever chickens are sudd ...

My best friend told me that when we went on our annual Helen Ga. trip that she would teach me how to do chicken scratch. I was so excited. This picture is where she was showing me how she marked her pattern on her fabric. Vicki told me to bring my fabric, needles and thread and be ready to chicken scratch all week! I was ready! Remember seeing this? Isn't it beautiful? This is what she is working on. She is planning on making a quilt with hers. So she showed me the 3 stitches and we picked…

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 notic…

This cross stitched quilting on gingham checkered fabric creates a beautiful lacy appearance. This guide is about making a chicken scratch quilt.

We caught the chicken bug in the spring and ended up building this coop. Its design is based on a combination of coops on this site and others. I spent some time actually modeling it with CAD software to figure out how I would put it all...

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…

For those of you that fear a needle...this one might make you overcome that fear. I never saw it before but it is perfectly clear now...it is sewing on graph paper! Five cents a copy. Prepared by the Educational Bureau of Coats and Clark. I'm having such trouble trying to figure out which one I need to do first, second, third.... The last half of the pamphlet will come tomorrow. Well, go get your needles! Download the pamphlet pages here.

Time for a guest post! Today, Laurie Latour speaks about Gingham Lace, which is also known as “chicken scratch embroidery,” among other names. In today’s article, Laurie shares with us some photos of beautiful pieces from her own collection and tells us a bit about stitching on gingham. Enjoy! Lace and gingham – hmmmmmm…. not ...

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