Today's stitch at Sunday Stitch School is Leaf Stitch.
Although I have seen several instructions in books, the best one is over at Kimberly Quimet. Her photos are far better than mine, but I will add these anyway.
Mattia tells me the French name is, Point de Fueilla.
The Leaf Stitch is basically a cross worked in the order of 1-2-3-4, as shown below.
After that you just go on.
Homework:
2) a sprinkling of leaves on the Sunday Stitch School sampler, if you please,
and finally
3) brighten up this wet asphalt with some fallen leaves
20 comments:
Your leaves are going to look amazing on the "wet asphalt"! Beautiful color combinations.
Nice leaf stitch.
The colors you've chosen are fall time colors.
When I look out the window those are the colors I see.
There's also a lot of yellow leaves on the ground, I think they're
from cottonwood trees.
Great stitch! I'm sure your fallen leaves will be fabulous!
I have already finished my homework, and can say: You are right, amazing!
I finished the homework last night (Sunday night, what a good student, eh). The colours look great but I did not use any yellow.
I have never seen a cottonwood tree.
They are! I finished my homework last night, believe it or not!
le nom français de ce point est :
- point de feuille
Mattia
Thank you, Mattia, for the French name. I will update the blog post.
Such a pretty stitch, it looks like a variation of raised close herringbone stitch.
I see form your comments that you have finished your homework and I'm looking forward to seeing it. It is easy to see why it is called leaf stitch.
I was lucky to get Wally's initials embroidered on the napkin with simple ordinary stitches that wouldn't look like a tangled mess on the back.
I had a look at your TAST 2010 samplers and think it look similar. Sharon has removed the Closed Herringbone Stitch from her Stitch Dictionary, so I don't know how it is worked.
It took a bit of time to learn the movement, but once you got it , the stitch is easy. Having said that, it is NOT easy on Aida fabric!
Good for you! I am sure he will love the gifts of love you give him!
This is always such a fun stitch! You have done such a lovely job too. It’s never easy photographing stitches!
Always a good stitch.
It was hard to learn this stitch from the books, but Kimberley's instructions and clean photos turned it into child's play!
I guess most bloggers are amateur photographers without spotlights and tripods and whatnots to help take good photos.
It is perfect for a nice leaf!
It's hided here:
http://pintangle.com/2010/09/27/tast-2010-week-31-raised-close-herringbone-stitch/
Thank you!
I HAVE the book from where Sharon took the stitch, and I just failed to notice.
The difference between the stitches is that the Leaf Stitch bites the fabric and the Raised Closed Herringbone stitch is worked over a bar. I will have to give it a try.
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