Welcome to Sunday Stitch School.
Do you remember Lesson 15's Open Chain Stitch? It is a stitch with MANY names.
When I searched for a stitch beginning with R I found Renaissance Stitch in A-Z of Embroidery Stitches 2. A nice stitch, it looks complicated but was easy to stitch.
While checking if it had any other names I found in Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches a Renaissance Stitch which is TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
This week we focus on the A-Z2 version.
Work it like this:
Of course you can make it shorter, wider and with longer anchoring stitches at the sides.
Homework:
Fill a square with yellow Renaissance Stitches
and if there is time, do something creative!
No Swedish name has been found. In French it is known as Point de Rococo
Sunday, 9 April 2017
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You always make it look easy!
ReplyDeleteIt IS easy! Do one and you are hooked!
DeleteIt can also be done as a pulled work stitch, I think...
ReplyDeleteI will have to try that!
Deleteit looks easy when you work it.
ReplyDeleteIt is one of those 'autopilot' stitches; once you get the hang of it, it stitches itself!
DeleteThe Norwich stitch filling looks lovely- it took a few goes for me to get it right.
ReplyDeleteThe Renaissance is an easy one.
I found the Renaissance stitch almost hypnotized me - I just couldn't stop!
DeleteI can see why you choose this one instead of the Mary Thomas variation, it's a decorative filling stitch. I've used this stitch in my embroidery 'Relief', I shared a detail of these stitches here:
ReplyDeletehttp://fat-quarter.blogspot.nl/2011/09/more-new-stitches.html
In Dutch it is not only called Renaissance steek but also Rococosteek or Bundelsteek.
Dear Annet,
DeleteThank you for the link. As always your work is beautiful.
I have had a good look around the internet and also searched my books. There seems to be some different opinions about this stitch and other similar stitches, and I will try to discuss it on my Friday Homework report.
I remember doing renaissance stitch like your pink version years ago, in fact it is on a needle book which I still use.
ReplyDeleteAhem... The PINK stitches above are NORWICH Stitch. On Friday I will post the Renaissance stitches I am now working on in yellow.
DeleteSo pretty! I can see how working the stitch might be addicting.
ReplyDeleteIf you work this stitch on Aida (the grid fabric I am using for the sample) it is easy to find the right holes to put the needle into, and then stitching is addictive.
DeleteYou've found a stitch I haven't seen before and there's two different versions?
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to learning more about this stitch, thanks, Queenie.
I am trying to teach myself about embroidery stitches and find I need to learn a LOT! Yes, there is more to this, and similar stitches, than I thought.
DeleteI like this stitch but haven't used it for a long time. I will have to look at it again.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that there are at least four very similar stitches! All with different names. I'll report about them tomorrow.
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