Lacey Thread Designs

Good evening, thanks for inquiring about the Blanket Stitch flower!  Let me try and explain the directions a little more thoroughly for you.

The first step is to WEAVE the bars as shown in the first diagram.  Begin weaving the first *bar from the inside towards the outside of the square, run your thread  under the Kloster blocks, and come up at the second bar and weave it towards the center.  Turn the corner and weave the left adjoining bar to the outside**.  Repeat * to ** around the square until you reach the inside of bar 8.  Begin weaving the inside bar 9 from bottom to top as shown on the diagram. 

THEN, begin the blanket stitch over bars 9 and 7, *by taking thread UNDER bar 9, up through center space,  then come back over bar 9 and 7, going back down on the upper part of bar 7.  Bring thread to the front in the space between bar 7 and bar 9 as shown on the diagram.  Take the thread back BEHIND bar 9 then, and back again to the front**, repeating * to ** until the bars about half full of blanket stitches. When bars are full enough (4 to 5 blanket stitches, depending on how tightly you stitch) turn fabric one quarter turn and do the same stitch again over bars 6 and  10, then over bars 5 and 4, etc., until you have stitched bars 3 and 2. At that point, begin the center stitch as shown on the diagram, then finish the blanket stitches over bars 12 and 1.  When you reach that point finish the center spider web stitch, then stitch the blanket stitches over bars 1 and 8.