What technique is being used in this picture?

[predawn]

Hey everyone, I recently came across this bookmark on dA, and I'm unsure what sort of stitching the creator used for the background. I asked, but haven't heard back, so I figured I'd ask you guys! Any insight would be appreciated.

The bookmark:

[natalielowen]

It is just stitching over more than one square at a time. You can find a detailed explanation here: http://onechordwonder.blogspot.com/2008 ... wpony.html (not my blog).

Hope it helps!

[Tevosa]

Do you mean the blue part? That's called the Scotch Stitch. It's larger than the Mosaic Stitch and it's for filling in large areas of background with something a little more decorative than tent stitch. Each block of the mosaic stitch has 3 diagonal lines. The scotch stitch usually has 5.

In the blog, the yellow background is a variation of it. The dark blue background for the Wart is the Byzantine Stitch.

Here' a picture of how to do a scotch stitch.
http://www.freepatterns.com/content/con ... ent_id=139

If you look in almost any needlepoint book, it should have several different stitches and instructions on how to make them.

[predawn]

Thank you both! I had never seen such a thing before. I'm still pretty ignorant about different stitch types besides cross stitch and backstitch, lol. I appreciate it!

[techno-ninja]

Thanks for the info, i seem to have a few gaps missing in my stitching info too!