WIPW - A Productive Week

After working hard with non-stitching-related things a couple of weeks ago, THIS week I was able to indulge in stitching, quilting, cutting fabric, counting Hexagon blocks and mending clothes.

Mending in the spirit of SDGs

I have some very old and very dear garments. When they show signs of wear and tear, I prefer to mend them rather than toss them out. So was the case with my black jacket. I have had it for 20 or 25 years, and I have never wanted to replace it. 

It's of very good quality, but eventually I had an accident and tore a slit near one of the pockets. It was time to mend it.

 I had some iron-on-fabric-repair tape in black to patch up the tear. As the jacket is lined, I had to rip open the hem to get at the reverse side of the jacket and reinforce the inside before I could iron on tape on the outside, too. Then I stitched the hem and the pocket by hand. 

You need to open the pocket to see the mended area.

Hexablooms

At the end of January, I hung the Hexabloom quilt to see how far I had got. There were 292 blocks on the flimsy at that time.

Since then, I have added more. The total number of hexagon flowers is now 324.

I have also started placing and marking the next set of flower blocks.

Furthermore, I have cut more fabric squares.

Sunday Stitch School Indigo Sampler

The sample of the latest stitch, #356 Breuten Stitch, was added.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 356: Brueten Stitch

First, let me start the lesson with a bit of information about the Japanese language.

Japanese writing is made up of four types of script: 

1) Kanji, where each individual character has a meaning, and combined with others, make up words (冬 winter + 花 flower = 冬花 winter flowers). A problem is that there is no indication of how to pronounce the characters.

2) Roman letters  (Aa, Bb, Cc ....), which are often used for well-known abbreviations (SOS, WC, BMW) or iconic names (Toyota, Hello Kitty, MIKIMOTO)

3) Hiragana is a phonetic alphabet with a total of 71 characters/combinations of characters. Children's books are often written in Hiragana. (ね ne    こ ko     ねこ　neko = cat). Hiragana is also often used to indicate the sound of difficult or unusual kanji. It is then written in small print next to the kanji characters.

4) Katakana is also a phonetic alphabet. It, too, is made up of 71 characters and combinations. Katakana, however,  is used to write out the sound of foreign words. クku   ロro   スsu   クロス = Cross.   For example, Cross Stitch is written クロスステッチ

So, when I looked in '1000のステッチ',  called 'The Technique for over 1000 Stitches Embroidery' in English, I found a stitch whose name was written in Katakana, i.e. a foreign name.

                                            ブリューテンステッチ  

Now, how would you write that in Roman letters?  Brüten Stitch? Brueten Stitch? Bryten Stitch?

What language is it? German? Dutch? Norwegian? English?

I am sorry, but I have not found any stitches by that name in any of my other stitch dictionaries or online.

If you know the official name of this stitch, where it is from and how to spell it, please leave a comment below.

Until I know better, I'll use this spelling -  'Brueten Stitch' . It is made up of four Detached Lazy Daisy Stitches, where you pull the chain out of shape, and the result is a cross. Let me illustrate it with these photos:

Mark the cross or use a gridded fabric.

Don't anchor the stitch, instead pull it out of shape.

You will get a lump

Repeat in a different direction of the cross.

You could stop here, for a single version.

1000のステッチ though shows a double version,

so repeat with a second set of pulled Chain  Stitches.

Anchor in the middle.

If you opened up the arms of the cross,

you could make a sun!

Friday Revision Homework - Stitches 351 - 355

Finally, Sunbonnet Sue is here! 

Sue needed to STRETCH the time with an extra week before she could show up here for the Revision Homework of stitches 351 - 355.

What has she been doing, then? Well, she's been STRETCHING and working out in the gym to be bikini fit for summer!

WIPW - Back to some form of Normal

 This week I can report that I am back on track on my Work In Progress Wednesday projects.

Hexablooms

I am now stitching the long bands of hexiflower blocks previously made, 

to the flimsy.

Sunday Stitch School Indigo Sampler

I will have to add the latest stitches to this sampler tonight before the end of Wednesday.