Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 379: Spiral Trellis Stitch

 Welcome to another lesson. Today we will be learning the Spiral Trellis Stitch from Practical Embroidery.

This ornamental, slightly raised stitch is easily built up from a circle of Back Stitch. Yes, it is an easy stitch, but it requires a lot of time, and it also gobbles up a lot of thread.

There is an excellent tutorial in Practical Embroidery's link above.

Here are my photo instructions:

Mark a circle.

Make a Back Stitch line.

Come out between two of the Back Stitches. 

For easy orientation, I also suggest placing a pin at the starting point.

Let's call this point 12 o'clock.

Using only the Back Stitch, make a knotted stitch.

Work your way clockwise around the circle.

The final stitch worked over the foundation Back Stitch.

From now on, use the bridges created between the knotted

stitches and work your way down to 3 o'clock.

Here, skip one bridge so that the circle gradually will become 

slightly smaller.

make another skip at 9 o'clock.

For the third row, skip a bridge at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock.

Finally you will reach the middle and have yourself a little dome.

Anchor the last stitch in the middle. Fasten the thread at the back.

Homework:

Friday Homework for Lesson 378: Raised Cretan Stitch

The Raised Cretan Stitch makes a nice, ornamental look. The opportunity to play with threads of different weight, structure and colour is great.

Please note: By mistake, I added the wrong video clip of Ariane Zurcher's On the Other Hand, in the Sunday Stitch School's lesson. I have now changed it to the one containing Raised Chevron Stitch.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth

When I see these spindly 'monsters', I think of the new type of robotic hound weapons produced by some countries

WIPW - A Present in the Making

 Here is this week's Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Hexablooms

I only had time to assemble the 17 blocks into sets of two + a white single hexagon.

I hope to have time to join them into one column and then attach that to the right side of the flimsy. I keep my fingers crossed I will manage to have the work done by the end of next week.

The reason for this slow progress is that I have been commissioned to make a 

Birthday Present

in the form of a cushion cover. I am trying to make a tutorial, for future reference, for this reversible envelope-closure cushion cover.

Here is a picture of the front of the main side, still in the making. I had the blue fabric and the machine-laced ornaments in my stash. I am very happy to use things that are 'just hiding in a box'.

Sunday Stitch School Indigo Stitch Sampler

I added some Closed Feather Stitch seams; one of them is holding down a pink ribbon.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 378: Raised Chevron Stitch

Once again, we will learn a stitch that has a 'twin' that we have met before.

In 2018, we learned #72 Sham Hem Stitch. It's made up of several V-shaped stitches joined into a long VVVVVVVVVVVVVV seam. Over this, another thread is laced/raised, creating a beautiful band.

Blue Vs laced/threaded with brown.

Today, about 300 stitches later, we will look at #378 Raised Chevron Stitch. 

It can be found in Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, in The Reader's Digest Complete Book of Embroidery Stitches. Or check out the video of Ariane Zurcher's On the Other Hand.

Just like in the twin stitch, we have V-shapes, but they are spaced, staggered and alternated straight up and upside down. Like this:

(There is a good diagram in Mary Thomas's dictionary.)

So let's do the whole photo tutorial:

Next, the lacing:

Change to a contrasting thread (here aqua). 

Come out from the left.

Insert the needle right to left, under the purple thread,

without biting the fabric. Make sure the aqua thread goes up.

Follow the photos and pay attention to the red

arrow.

Finally, anchor the aqua thread.

Homework: