Huck Towel Embroidered Design Waves with “Lace” Edge

Most Huck Towel designs can be replicated from a picture. However, the wave section  of the Stash Couture Huck Towel design Waves with “Lace” Edge, creates a colorblending optical illusion that makes it difficult to see individual threads.

The following graph of the design was created to be used as a pattern.  Scroll down for more detail on how to read a Huck Design graph.

Graph for Waves and “Lace” Edge

The colors on the graph were chosen to emphasize individual threads – color choices for finished towels are up to the needleartist’s discretion.  The colorblending illusion is achieved by selecting colors that grade from light to dark or from one color to another.

Examples:

1. Light Yellow
2. Yellow
3. Orange
4. Rust
5. Brown
6. Brown
7. Rust
8. Orange
9. Yellow
10. Light Yellow

1. Light Green
2. Green
3. Teal
4. Blue
5. Navy – then reverse color order
   

To begin, follow the same process as outlined in Huck How-to.

• Hem the towel.
• Locate its lengthwise centerline approximately 6″ from the bottom hem.
• Thread darning or cross-stitch (blunt end) needle with a very long piece of embroidery floss (3 strands).
• Begin embroidery with the center stitch of the uppermost thread in the wave pattern.  (The center stitch is the horizontal stitch under the “C” in the “Center of Pattern” label on the graph.)
• Pull the thread halfway through at the center stitch.  Work design to one edge of towel using half of the thread.  Return to other half of thread and work design to other edge of towel.
• Huck Embroidery has No Knots – weave thread ends in as indicated in Huck How-To.
• Complete wave design using selected colors.
• Complete lower “Lace” design.
• Complete another section of “Lace” design along upper edge of Wave Section.
• Admire your beautiful towel.
• Use your beautiful towel.

How to Read Huck Graph:

Huck Towel Weave with Rows of Floats Highlighted

The weave of Huck Toweling creates “float” threads that form a pattern.  As illustrated in the photo, every other row of floats line up in columns.

IsoDot (Diamond Dot) Graph Paper

There is a graph paper that has this same “every other row lines up” design.  It is called “isodot.”

Comment:  Obviously this graph paper was not named by a needleartist.  Needleartists rarely use the phrase “iso” – let’s go with “diamond dot.”

Each dot on the graph paper represents a float on the Huck Toweling.

Simply put, Huck Embroidery is just “connecting the dots!”

The only detail is what direction to pass the thread through the floats. The center of the wave design above seems to form “V’s” as the direction of threads changes.  The colorblending illusion of the wave pattern is achieved by stitching rows of different colored threads in the same direction.

To show the direction of the threads on a graph, the dots are not connected with vertical lines – the lines are slightly angled.

Huck Embroidery and Graph of Design

The above photo includes a simple stitched Huck Embroidery Design and its graph.

Try the sample to gain familiarity with the process. then move onto more complex patterns..

Warning:  Huck Embroidery is Addictive!