Progress on Work In Progress Wednesday has been slow because of the sweltering heat.
Label for Crazy for Crazy
The octagon block has been embellished.
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler
The #92 Parma Stitch (yellow and rust) started last week has been treated to Buttonhole Stitch.
There is also a line of #207 Plaited Edge Stitch (light purple) and another of #174 Pagoda Chevron Stitch (pink).
Five weeks and five stitches pass by so quickly! Now it is time to look back and review the five latest stitches. Click on the title for a link to the instructions.
A historic stitch that takes you back to the Tudors. With the help of Rachel of VirtuoSew Adventures I have worked this elegant braid stitch into a nice linear stitch. It looks complicated, but actually it is easier than you think.
On the other hand, here IS an easy stitch. Chubby and free.
Here is a chance to be cruel, without hurting anyone - whip the back (stitch)!
Bridge building!
Once you get the rhythm and remember if the needle should go up or down, this stitch is easy. That it is beautiful is a great bonus!
Aida Sampler
Plain sailing!
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
It was quite easy to do without waste canvas or markings.
Work In Progress Wednesday.
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler
I added #114 Ship's Ladder Stitch
has now recovered from the recent 'plastic surgery'. 'Botox' in the form of Vliseline has straightened the sagging and now the quilt hangs straight.
How many stitches are based on, or include, the Buttonhole Stitch (or Blanket Stitch, if you prefer that name)?
Sharon Boggon's list of TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday) stitches contains 27:
My Sunday Stitch School has another 15 stitches:
So are you ready for yet another Buttonhole stitch? I hope so.
It is thanks to Annet of Fat-Quarter that we have this nice variation, which she calls Up and Down Crossed Buttonhole Stitch.
At first glance it can be mistaken for Sunday Stitch School's #111 E Laced Edging Stitch,
You can see Annet's set of Up and Down Buttonhole stitches here, where one of them is the Up and Down Crossed Buttonhole Stitch.
Now for my photo instructions:
biting the fabric. Notice that the needle
goes DOWN.
needle goes UP.
Repeat from there.
Thank you Annet!
Show off the Up and Down Crossed Buttonhole Stitch on these samplers.
This stitch gives us a chance to play with various threads. The threaded part especially is where the more challenging threads, fuzzy ones, knotted ones, thick ones and so on, can be used.
However, a foundation fabric with a good grid will give you a better Blanket Stitch base to work on, as you can see on the Aida Sampler.
Aida Sampler
On the menu today for Work In Progress Wednesday are:
some linear stitches on the Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler,
the completed label for the log cabin challenge quilt, Morning Glory
and a face lift. Yes, a sagging 'face' has been been treated to a lift.
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler
I added
#83 Mennonite Tacks (three parallel rows)
and #188 Quaker Stitch (four rows of Perle 5)
This new project is a restoration of the Crazy for Crazy quilt.
When it was new it hung straight and looked crisp and fresh. However, with time it has somehow lost its beauty. It turns out the quilt is so heavy with beads, buttons, trinkets that it began to sag and was in need of a 'facelif't and other forms of plastic surgery.
Like last week, we are again going to use two threads/colours.
The stitch is called Threaded Blanket Stitch and basically it is made up of two opposite rows of Buttonhole Stitch, that are later threaded together in an attractive way.
I learned it from Anita at Artistic Fingers. See her excellent tutorial here.
Or use my picture step-by-step instructions below.
Make a row of Buttonhole Stitch with even spacing and height.
Not really a freeform stitch, it's better to use the even grid of Aida or even weave fabric. Then the three parallel lines of Back Stitch make a neat and even foundation. Look at my three samplers below and judge for yourself.
