Friday Homework for Lesson 379: Spiral Trellis Stitch

This homework took much longer than I expected. It might be my slow stitching or my failing eyesight. What I found was that stitching with a monochrome thread was harder than with a variegated. The colour changes helped keep track of the 'bridges' between the knots.

Aida Sampler

Making a circle on Aida is not easy, so I eyeballed it.

 

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Red Silk Kimono Scribble Cloth

WIPW - Not Much to Write Home About

WIPW- Work In Press Wednesday. There is not much to write home about, as I have been busy making a cushion and writing up a tutorial for the process. Anyway, here is my weekly report.

Hexablooms

I'm almost there! There are only a few more blocks to fix to the flimsy, and it will be DONE!

Sunday Stitch School Indigo Sampler

A shy row of #377 Raised Chevron Stitch.

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