After last week's break it is time again for a TAST stitch. The Pistil Stitch is a form of French Knot and resembles the pistil of a flower. I have often used it in floral embroideries but though I wanted to do something different.
In last week's summery of the TAST stitches I played with zentangels and made a bird.
Zentangles were such fun for this week's challenge I started scribbling lines on a piece of pink batik. The empty fields were filled with Pistil stitches.
The result is very abstract, not a flower in sight!
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Looks like a ball of variegated yarn. :-)
So interesting to look at!
This is absolutely wonderful. I particularly like the fabric you chose to stitch on. Just beautiful.
Love this!
Nice work...Good that I knew what zentangles are. Thanks.
For me this is a perfect abstract composition and I really love it. Very inspirational!
lovely work, Queenie :D
Wonderful colours and the stitching in between the lines are great.
Lovely stitching and I enjoyed the little zentangle video - didn't know there was a name for what we've all been doing all these years!!
Beautiful zentangle stitching.
Another great cool idea!
Beautiful stitching .
Great zentangling and stitching!
WoW! This is so good. What a great idea to highlight one stitch. What a lovely calendar(12 stitches) it would make displayed like this.
Hi!
I like the freedom to stitch on ANY fabric and batik is especially embroidery friendly.
I learned about zentangles through Pintangle and although I have scribbled during telephone conversations etc I now know how to 'develop' such 'graffiti' and incorporate it in my embroidery. Give it a try; it's great fun!
I guess there is a name for every action under the sun! 'Zen' in zentangle might be from zen meditation as this is a very meditative form of scribbling. Whatever, it is a great form of relaxation and useful for embroidery design!
I agree, using only one TAST stitch in each of 12 'scribbles' one would get a beautiful calendar. The Pistil stitch is especially nice as it can be used both as a liniar and detatched stitch. As would chain, fly and bullion...
Lovely stitches, very neat as always.
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