Hi! I'm Libby Lehman, your host again for "Name that Stitch."
I love circles, and today I'm going around in circles. You know what stitch
this is?
It's in a section in stitches that quilters don't use very often.
This is in the button holes stitches,
but this is the eyelet stitch and it makes a circle.
My particular machine has 2 different styles of eyelets.
Now,
I really don't want to use these as eyelets, I don't make belts or
anything that needs an eyelet very much.
But I think it makes a wonderful little decorative stitch
and there are several ways to do that. Let me show you this.
One of the things I like to do
is
repeat it twice. I'll sew around it once and the machine
automatically stops when it gets to the end.
And then I am going to stitch it again.
And this gives you just a real nice, filled in stitch.
I want you to come to back of the machine because I want to show you some things about
this eyelet stitch.
The way this stitch works is it begins by making
a circle of straight stitches
and then it goes back and fills it in.
Theoretically for an eyelet, of course, you would then punch a hole here. You can come
back again, and stitch it again.
You really want to reenforce that
and I like that look sometimes.
I also like
the simpler eyelet.
Which is just
a circle
with straight stitches.
There it is once,
which is fine or emphasis, you can go back over it again.
Now those are the basic stitches, but I'd love to play with these.
For example
on the stitch I did here...
this eyelet is set up at a width of 9 and a length of 8.6.
but what would happen if I leave the width with 9 and I bring that length
to lets say,down to 11?
Then I would get a
beautiful little oval eyelet.
I think this would be particularly effective
for say a dolls eyes
would work really well.
Now, if you come to the board, I'll show you some fun things I have done
with the eyelet.
The eyelet stitich is such a fun little stitch it just makes me smile.
So I like to use it for happy projects. You can see here,
this is the single eyelet in the default setting.
This is the single Straight stitch eyelet.
Here's where I have gone around it twice.
And here's where i have extended it out and also gone around it twice.
I thought what fun it would be to do one of my decorative stitches,
and then use the eyelet stitch as flowers on the decorative design
there..
I can see this particularly on the border of a little girl's dress
Even more fun,
I had some polka dot fabric,
which was fine
but it's just kind of boring. It's just a purple fabric with white polka
dots so I decided to dress this up.
And I did that
with nothing more than the eyelet stitch.
If you can see here this is just the basic straight eyelet stitch in the
purple.
This
right here the little purple
is the eyelet stitch, but instead of a width of 9 and changed it to a width
of 6 and that fit around that circle perfectly.
The same thing here I reduced the width and came down.
This is the default setting
of that. So you can see the difference there.
I can see this as
decoration on your fabric before you quilt.
You might also choose to use this as a quilting design.
I think there's so much you can do with an eyelet, I hope you'll experiment.
Thanks, and I'll see you next time on "Name that Stitch".