Ridgewood Needlepoint is exploring brick stitch as part of their New Stitch Monday series.
Now Ridgewood looks at fancier variations on brick stitch.
Instructions for brick stitch beading are included. Be warned, though. Depending on the size of your canvas and beads, the beading thread and the underlying canvas may show. That can provide some interesting shading effects or contrasts if you experiment with colors a bit.
Brick stitch is quite versatile. You can add a bead to the stitch after your needle comes up from the back and it will settle in the middle hole. You can work brick stitch in vertical columns, which is particularly useful if you are doing the stitch on black or dark navy where it is hard to see where to put your needle. You can also work brick stitch over threads laid in the ditch between threads which gives a fun effect if you use two colors or add a metallic as the laid thread.
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