About RSN Stitch Bank
Detached buttonhole bars
- Detached buttonhole stitch
Buttonhole bars can be attached to the fabric securely at both ends, or detached at one end to produce a stitch with movement and flexibility. In detached buttonhole bars the bar is attached at one end only, thus creating a raised length of buttonholes along a length of thread.
For more background see the entry for buttonhole stitch.
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Method
In this example, a detached buttonhole bar is used to create a tiny carrot. Insert a pin into the fabric and bring the green thread up just to one side of it.
Wrap the thread around the top of the pin once and take the needle down the same hole. Bring the needle up very close to the starting point. Repeat two or three times and this will be the detached bar.
Cast off the green thread and change to the orange thread. Bring the thread up at the starting point.
Work a buttonhole stitch just a little down from the tip of the green thread bar.
Continue to form buttonhole stitches towards the end of the detached bar.
Try to make the buttonhole stitches as even as possible.
At the end of the bar, take the thread through to the back of the fabric and secure it.
Remove the pin and cut through the loop at the top of the green thread to make a carrot. The detached button hole bars can, of course, be made with a single colour, working buttonhole stitches along the entire length of the bar.
Detached buttonhole bars
Structure of stitch
Common uses
Embroidery Techniques
Related Stitches
Identifying Detached buttonhole bars
Detached buttonhole bars stitch can be identified by a length of buttonhole stitch having been looped around a length of thread, but only attached to the fabric at one end.