Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 360: Basket Filling Stitch

Happy Easter!

Let's do a canvas stitch today - the Basket Filling Stitch. It's easy and relaxing.

Check out the instructions at the Royal School of Needlework's Stitch Bank.

Here is my photo tutorial:

Homework: Add here, and if time permits, fill in a square on the Canvas Stitch Sampler, too

Friday, Nay, Saturday Homework for Lesson 359: Wool Stitch

I should have posted this homework report yesterday, but with one of the few sunny days of the Cherry Season falling on Good Friday, it was not possible to find time and opportunity.

So, a day late, I want to show you the

Aida Sampler

'Coffee beans' in wool and metallic 'goji berries'.

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Here, too, I worked the Wool Stitch in wool, as well as in the usual perle 8.

Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth

I used DMC stranded floss for the stitches in variegated green/light blue/teal, while the yellow stitches were done with an inferior, fuzzy perle 5.

WIPW - A Hexagonial Week

 For this week's Work In Progress Wednesday report, I have only news of 

Hexablooms

where I stitched together the 19 blocks on the left (those on the right were joined together previously).

I also stitched/cut out the following parts:

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 359: Wool Stitch

It was in a Japanese library book by Yumiko Higuchi that I found the Wool Stitch.

It is simply a Lazy Daisy Stitch with a vertical Straight Stitch on top.

Follow my photot tutorial.

Anchor the Lazy Daisy Stitch.

Come out again in the same hole you started from.

Anchor the Straight Stitch in the same 

hole as the Lazy Daisy Stitch.

In a twisted thread like Perle, you can easily see how the stitch is made. 

In wool, it looks obscure, mysterious and fuzzy.

Homework: Add here.