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How-To: Make Feathers with Raised Fishbone Embroidery Stitch

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Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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August 12th, 2014

Stitch up your own lovely feather patterns—or any other shapes that need some textured filling—with this raised fishbone embroidery stitch tutorial from Sarah’s Hand Embroidery Tutorials!

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