Yesterday, in Part 1 of this tutorial on How to Create Custom Stitch Patterns, I shared with you how to create your own custom design patterns.  Today, I am going to show you how to expand upon the skills we learned in Part 1.

All of the custom patterns in today’s lesson are all derived from the very same original base 3 stitch pattern we used in Part 1.

Here are a few more:

Now we can begin to further modify these new custom stitch patterns by adding more detail.  For example:

And we can take these new stitch patterns and apply the lessons we learned in Part 1 to make even larger, more complicated stitch patterns.  For example, using the second design pattern above we can create the following:

Here are a few other inspirational custom stitch patterns to get your creative juices flowing.  Remember, these were all created using the simple 3 stitch base pattern we started with in Part 1.  The possibilities are truly endless.

Now in these next few stitch patterns, I did the inverted the stitches and white space.

Now let’s start using some of these stitch patterns as repeating building blocks to create decorative stitch pattern rows.

Again, using the skills we learned in Part 1, we can now create frames or borders for our custom stitch patterns.

Again, the possibilities are endless as we continue to build upon the stitch patterns we’ve created.

With the few simple skills we learned in Part 1, and using a very simple base stitch pattern, you are now know how to create your own custom stitch patterns.

If this tutorial has been helpful, or beneficial or inspiring in any way, please let me know by posting a comment below.  I’d love to hear how these skills have set you on your own custom stitch pattern designing journey!

For those of you who have always wanted to learn how to create your own custom stitch pattern designs, but never knew where to start, this short tutorial will help get you started on custom designing your own patterns.

Start with a small basic pattern, shape or design

Designing custom stitch patterns starts with taking a very simple stitch pattern and creating it into a new and different custom design or pattern.

In my example, I am using a base three stitch pattern.

Then Copy, Flip, and/or Rotate

Now just copy, flip and/or rotate the image in such a way as to come up with a totally new stitch pattern.

Repeats with No Additional White Space

Using the same three stitch base pattern, turned and/or flipped a few times, we can create yet another new design.

Superimposed Common Areas

You can superimpose common areas of the stitch pattern.

Adding Extra Space Between Design Elements

Or you can create extra space between the patterns.

Conclusion

These new stitch patterns can then be used to create more complex patterns of your own design.  You are only limited by your own imagination.

I hope this tutorial on how to create custom stitch patterns has shown how easy it is to turn a simple stitch pattern into a new, custom designed pattern of your very own design.