Chicken scratch

Chicken scratch embroidery is a unique and charming needlework technique that has been around for centuries. This form of embroidery is believed to have originated in America during the early days …

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.

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…

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-stitch section of the chicken scratch page before beginning this lesson. It will help you...

Instructions for doing Chicken Scratch Embroidery on gingham fabric

Posts about chicken scratch (round/reg.) written by Elizabeth

I had never heard the term chicken scratch embroidery until last week when I stopped into an antique store and stumbled across two chicken scratch aprons.

Scratch grains help to keep chickens warm in the winter by boosting their metabolism as they work to digest the high-fat/carb grains overnight

Years ago I bought some Gingham fabric with hearts. I'm not sure what I wanted to make, but now was the time to use it for the first challenge of Stitch Explorer. I started on a 12 inch square with 2 threads of white DMC. I used this tutorial. Then I did the same with red DMC. I tried some cross stitches and made a woven square without the running stitches. The next one I tried was double cross stitch. I laced them diagonal. The second diagonal was woven into the first one. On the left I…

In this article, we discuss everything you need to know about chicken scratch. The differences in chicken feed and scratch and so much more.