How to Embroider: Woven Picot Stitch- Video and Step by Step Tutorial

Woven Picot Stitch

The woven picot stitch creates a 3D triangle that is attached to the fabric at the base and the top point is free to move around. This stitch is great for creating flowers, scales, or movement in an embroidery. Use this DIY video and step-by-step tutorial to learn how to embroider the woven picot stitch.

What you'll need to create the woven picot stitch:

Woven Picot Stitch Video

Woven Picot Stitch Step-by-Step Tutorial

1. Start by placing a long pin into the fabric at the top point of the triangle and bringing it up through the fabric at the bottom center of the triangle.

2. Next, bring the needle up through the fabric from the back to the front in a bottom corner of the triangle. Wrap the thread around the top of the pin and bring the needle back down through the fabric in the other bottom corner of the triangle. Gently tug the thread so that it is flush with the fabric. This will outline the triangle with thread.

3. Next, bring the needle up through the fabric next to the pin, in the bottom center of the triangle. Again, wrap the thread around the top of the pin. This will look like a line coming up the center of the triangle.

4. Now that the outline of the woven picot is complete, it’s time to weave! Flip the needle around and work with the eye of the needle. Glide the needle over, under, and over the three strands of the triangle in the opposite direction the thread is from the top of the pin. In the diagram, the thread is on the right, so I wove the thread through the strands to the left. After weaving the needle through, gently tug so that the thread is close to the top of the triangle.

5. Now weave back through the strands in the opposite direction, going under, over, under the three strands of thread.

6. Continue weaving until the triangle is entirely filled and the rows are tightly packed against each other.

7. End the woven picot stitch by finishing a woven row and then bringing the needle back down through the fabric at the base of the triangle. Knot the thread on the back and then remove the pin to see the woven picot stitch pop away from the fabric.

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