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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…

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Just a little house keeping here, so that you can easily find information on chicken scratch / embroidery on gingham here on Needle 'n Thread when you're looking for it! This index will include all articles on Chicken Scratch, including patterns, tutorials, and other information on the technique.

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an old fashion apron is shown with the words chicken scratch embroidery on it and red, white

Old Fashion Chicken Scratch Apron. I had never heard the term “chicken scratch embroidery“ until last week when I stopped into an antique store and stumbled across two aprons that I fell in love with. #embroidery #aprons #homemaking #oldaprons #oldfashion

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a pair of scissors cutting through the stitchs on a blue and white checkered fabric

This lesson will demonstrate how to do the embroidery using the different stitches over a border design. It is advised to go through the thread-fabric-and…

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Chicken Scratch is such a weird name for an embroidery technique! I can only imagine that it came about because this technique of embroidery on gingham involves sharp little stitches ... like chicken's feet maybe? Or maybe some of the stitches look like the hatch marks in the ground after chickens h

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a green and white checkered table cloth with embroidered snowflakes

Stitch Explorer 2009. Gingham is 1/8" squares and I used white crochet cotton and green perle #8. I wanted the green to look like leaves and they don't, so I may redo the green part.

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Laurie Latour, author of The Guide to Gingham Embroidery: Book One – Stitch & Learn Gingham Lace, Snowflaking, & Gingham Cross Stitch, is guest posting here today. Laurie’s an avid collector of gingham embroidered aprons and an expert on the subject of All Things Gingham-Embroidered. I hope you enjoy her article! Ah, the long lazy ...

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