Shading Shading stitches are used to fill areas of a design with graduating colour or spacing. Shading Stitches Basketweave tent stitch Block shading Brick stitch Bullion knot Burden stitch Byzantine stitch Chevron (pattern) Chinese knot Colonial knot Compressed lace (pattern) Condensed cashmere stitch Continental tent stitch Cross stitch Crossed cushion stitch Double linked cross stitch Double straight cross stitch Dutch stitch Encroaching straight Gobelin stitch Ermine stitch Fan (pattern) Fan stitch Florentine stitch Fly stitch Flying cross stitch French knot Hexagonal lozenge (pattern) Interlocking ‘Y’s (pattern) Interlocking ‘Z’s (pattern) John stitch Laid work Long and short stitch Maltese cross stitch Oblique Gobelin stitch Oblong double-tied cross stitch Padded satin stitch (laid work padding) Padded satin stitch (split stitch padding) Pearl stitch (variation) Pekinese stitch Pistil stitch Plait stitch Raised spot stitch Reversed cushion stitch Rhodes stitch Satin stitch Seeding stitch Slanted satin stitch Small diamond (pattern) Stepped fishbone stitch Straight Gobelin stitch T-blocks (pattern) Tent stitch Victorian step stitch Web stitch