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Place the hardanger fabric or white linen in your embroidery hoop to keep it tight and flat when you embroider. Take the needle and thread it with your embroidery thread. Begin stitching from the middle of your fabric. Pull your needle through the fabric, leaving a tail at its back.

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Hardanger embroidery made an impression on me at a very young age.

Each time I visited my grandmother's bungalow I made a beeline to her dressing table as it was always dressed beautifully. In the center, under the mirror was her silver hairbrush. She always placed it on one of her selection of beautifully embroidered doilies. Normally these featured colourful flowers or even crinoline ladies. This particular day she surprised me with a crisp white mat encrusted with white stitchery. The open areas were decorated with fine white lacey stitches. I was smitten straight away.

Nanna often let me sit with her when she did her embroidery and sometimes let me place a (rather wonky) stitch in her projects. I clamoured to watch the creation of this stunning needlework, only to be disappointed at first.

She laid five straight stitches side by side, changed direction and repeated this, time after time. Where was the lace? How did the holes get there? I was eager to learn so Nanna shared the basic techniques with me. Then disaster!

The work was carefully laid in the chair while she went to attend to her chores. I had seen her cutting some of the threads to create the lace and her special scissors (the ones with the mother of pearl handles) were laying on the side table so invitingly. I am sure you can guess the result of my 'helping out'?

Suffice it to say that Nanna's project was never finished and it was many years before I tried the technique again! But once I did, there was no stopping me.

Now it's time for me to share it with you

So what is Hardanger embroidery?

It is one of the techniques known as whitework, due to the traditional Norwegian way of using white thread on white fabric that so enraptured me as a child.

However, modern day Hardanger can be stitched in any colour scheme. Random dyed threads look especially pretty.

This embroidery often embellishes aprons, caps and household linen such as tablecloths, runners and pillows. I have stitched Hardanger bellpulls, dressing table mats, ornaments, coasters and framed pictures.

Most of the hardanger designs you will encounter are geometric in nature. However, I like to be inventive and enjoy designing pictorial pieces for fun, such as the little owl shown here.

The outline of the bird is created with those sets of five straight stitches my Nanna showed me, which are known as Kloster blocks. After cutting and removing (carefully) some of the fabric threads, lacey stitches decorate the resulting square holes. Surface stitches embellish the solid, uncut areas.

Beginners step by step Hardanger course

In 6 lessons my free Learn Hardanger course will teach you the basics. You will stitch small pieces that can be used as coasters, greetings cards, and a bookmark, . The stitches covered in each class are listed under the clickable images below.

Lesson 1

Kloser blocks,
Needleweaving
and Square Filets

Lesson 2

Fancy Kloster blocks
Wrapped bars
and Doves Eyes

Lesson 3

Kloster blocks, Square eyelets
Buttonhole edging

Lesson 4

Spiders Web,
Four sided stitch

Lesson 5

Satin stitch
Hemstitch

Extra

Satin Stitch, Four sided stitch,
Cable sititch,
Diamond Eyelets

Next, let's look at the materials and equipment you will need to try Hardanger embroidery for yourself.

Hardanger embroidery threads

You will need two different thicknesses of Pearl cotton for this type of embroidery. You will use the finer thread for the lacy filling stitches. The surface stitchery uses the thicker thread.

These pearl cotton threads are numbered depending on their thickness with the thicker thread having a lower number.

Free samsung automatic online unlock code generator. The number 3 cotton tends to be too thick for our purposes. Next is the number 5, which comes in skeins and balls. Pearl cotton numbers, 8 and 12 are only supplied in balls.

Fabric for Hardanger embroidery

Hardanger fabric is available in a number of different threads to the inch, or 'counts'. It is important to use a suitable weight of thread for each fabric type, as shown in the table below.

Fabric Count

22 count Oslo

28 count evenweave

32 count Linen

Threads to use

Pearl 5 and 8

Pearl 8 and 12

Pearl 12 only

What else will you need?

Tapestry needles
You will need two sizes, one for each thread. Try a size 20 for the Pearl no 5, size 22 for the Pearl no 8, and a size 24 for Pearl 12.

Sharp scissors
Sharp, pointed embroidery scissors are necessary for cutting the threads. Those with angled blades make life a little easier.

Embroidery hoop
I recommend you use an embroidery hoop while working the surface stitches. Remove it before cutting the fabric threads and doing the needleweaving.

Light to work by
A magnifying lamp will prove useful in preventing eye strain when stitching in low light.

Tweezers
A pair of pointed tweezers may also come in handy for teasing out the cut fabric threads.

Small pot
A container, in which to pop the cut threads, can help to keep your working area neat and tidy.

How to follow Hardanger patterns

As this is a form of counted thread embroidery the design is not printed onto the fabric. Instead, you will follow a chart which shows where to place the stitches.

The grid lines on the chart represent fabric threads. It is important to take care to check whether each line shows a single thread, or more. Large designs often use a line to mean two fabric threads. This makes the pattern smaller and easier to handle. Often only a quarter of the design is charted, again to keep things manageable. This is turned 90 degrees after each corner is stitched.

While learning, it is easier to follow charts that show every fabric thread. The patterns in my beginner course follow this method, as do my larger designs.

What if you cut the wrong thread?

As I discovered as a little girl cutting the wrong threads can be devastating. But don't panic as there are ways to rectify small mistakes. But please do keep your scissors away from young children, especially those with an interest in stitching!

To try to eliminate such errors at source, my charts have special red lines so you can see which threads to cut and which to leave well alone.

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Please remember to breathe whilst cutting the threads. Every time I teach someone, I find they forget to do so at this stage in their project!

For your bookshelf

If you want to learn more about Hardanger the following books by Janice Love will be helpful..

Do you have a question about Hardanger embroidery?

Whether you are a beginner to Hardanger embroidery or you have been stitching it for years, this is the place to ask for help or share your knowledge.

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What will I need?

8 inch square of Hardanger 22 count fabric
Pearl cotton nos. 5 and 8 (5 is the thicker one)

Let's get started

Start by downloading the hardanger pattern for this lesson. The file is in pdf format and most computers will have a program that can read these files, such as Adobe Reader.

Stitching the kloster blocks

Start by finding the centre of the fabric by folding it in half both ways and lightly creasing the centre. Count up 19 threads from the centre and two to the left to reach point A on the chart. This is our starting point.

Thread up your needle with a longish length of the pearl no. 5 and tie a knot in the end! I know, everyone says you shouldn't use knots, but we are not going to leave it in our work.

Push the needle through from the front of your work up in the left hand top corner, then bring it through again at the point marked A.

Work the first five satin stitches as numbered on the top section of your chart.

Count the number of fabric threads you are stitching over carefully: 4, 5, 6, 5 and then 4 fabric threads. Count over four fabric threads and repeat the sequence of stitches to work the next kloster blocks, as shown in the diagram above.

When you reach the corner avoid carrying the thread across the diagonal marked with a red X on the diagram. Instead reuse hole 19/21 and take the next stitch out to the side as shown.

If you find you are running short of thread, try not to join in a new piece whilst working a kloster block. Finish the block first, then start a new piece of thread. Why? Well if you start a new piece part way through a block it will be noticeable as the shine wears off the thread a little due to being repeatedly pulled through the fabric. The new thread of course will still be shiny.

The photo below shows our beginner guide to hardanger project at this stage, with all the kloster blocks completed.

Cutting the fabric threads

Now this is the point where, in my beginner guide to hardanger workshops, I remind people to breathe!

It is quite important as I don't want students passing out in class. Holding your breath seems to be an automatic reaction to the cutting part of learning hardanger.

Right, so take a sharp, pointed pair of scissors and lets begin cutting.

The fabric threads to cut are shown on the chart by red lines inside the kloster blocks.

Only cut threads at the end of the satin stitches, not alongside them!

It is safest to slide the scissor blade underneath all four adjacent threads at once, then double check that you only have four, before cutting them in one movement.

Cut as close to the satin stitches as you can but do not worry about any small tufts left afterwards. These will bury themselves in the satin stitches when the piece is washed.

When the required threads have been cut, your beginner guide to hardanger project should look like the photograph below.

Working the overcast, or wrapped, bars

We covered needlewoven bars in the first lesson. Here we are going to do overcast, or wrapped bars.

Rethread your needle with the thinner, number 8, thread. We will use this to wrap the remaining fabric threads in the center of our design, creating a neat openwork grid.

Start by following the red diagonal row on the chart.

Pull all four fabric threads together firmly, by taking the thread over then under. Make sure each stitch lays flat beside the previous one, not on top of it. Fill the bar, taking note of the number of wraps taken, so that you can use the same number on each bar.

When you reach the kloster blocks at the end of the row, thread the needle up through the back of the nearest block to reach the starting point for the next row. This row will finish at the point marked A on your chart.

On the next row I have colored the bars that complete a square in green on your chart. These are to act as a reminder that when working this bar you will need to complete a doves eye stitch. So before I give instructions for doing those, wrap half of your first 'green' bar.

How to work a doves eye

You worked square filets in the first lesson in this beginner guide to hard anger. This time we are going to introduce doves eyes. We will stitch four of these in this design.

The dove's eye filling stitch is made up of four buttonhole stitches, placed in the center of a 'square', which can be formed by either four wrapped bars or a combination of bars and kloster blocks. The diagram above shows a dove's eye stitch worked inside kloster blocks.

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It is important to make sure that all four loops in the dove's eye cross in the same direction to keep things neat.

To work the stitch, come up in the centre hole then take the needle under the adjacent bar (you can work clockwise or anti-clockwise). Bring the needle back up inside the loop you have just made, pulling the loop into shape until it fits comfortably (not loose and baggy but also not stretched too tight). Repeat this process until you reach the fourth bar.

To complete the stitch take the thread under the first loop you made and back down into the middle. Then finish wrapping the fourth bar. Try to make all your dove's eyes the same size with the same amount of tension.

Finishing your project

With this stage of the beginner guide to hardanger complete, you can use your finished piece as a coaster, mount in into an aperture card, make it into a pincushion with a satin lining, or as a Christmas tree ornament.

Have fun and I would love to see a photo of your finished piece.

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