Long and Short

If you are interested in learning the Long and Short stitch and shading as well you can Stitch along on Mary Corbet's Needle'nThread website. There is even a Long and Short stitch Flickr group with some lovely examples!

I'm a big fan of filling stitches and the Long and Short stitch in particular. Which reminds me to find my Princess and the Pea embroidery, which has lots of (wonky) long and short stitches and finish it soon!

White Rabbit WIP

Still working on my White Rabbit! The stitch on the jacket is clearly a long-short stitch, but I'm not sure what to call the stitch I used on the White Rabbit fur. I tried to make it look more furry, lively and textured by making stitches that go with the shape of the head, or the paw or the leg. I thought a normal long-short stitch would make Rabbit look very static and that's not good for a Rabbit in a hurry! :)