Trust Sharon B at Pintangle to give you nice stitches to try. Here is her Back Stitched Herringbone Stitch. It has not yet been used as a TAST stitch so I will add it to my Sunday Stitch School collection.
As the name suggests, it is basically a Herringbone Stitch, where you add a Back Stitch like this:
I really like this as a filling stitch on the Canvas Sampler, but it is beautiful as a single row or a border stitch, too.
There is only one project to show progress on for the Work In Progress Wednesday.
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler
One place of the design is almost like a cornucopia, so why not let it spill out lots of beautiful individual stitches? More to come next week.
Are you already familiar with the Royal School Of Needlework's new stitch bank?
Today's stitch was found there, and it is a good idea to look at the illustrations, the photo tutorial and the video to see how useful this website is.
You will find all about Two-sided Italian Cross Stitch here. There are actually two methods. Why not try both and pick the one you find easiest.
This beautiful canvas stitch is also listed in Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches.
Here is my photo tutorial:
Let the thread travel on the back of the canvas behind the stitches and start a new row below the first stitch.
Homework:
As this is a canvas stitch, add it to the canvas sampler. Add it also to these samplers.
Each petal is easy to do and when several of them are arranged into a flower you have a beauty. I think this works very well with variegated thread.
Limited amount of free time, which for me means time to stitch resulted in only one piece of progress for this Work In Progress Wednesday report.
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler
#42 Rambling Rose Stitch, 11 of them, sneaked in among the linear stitches.
There is a wealth of embroidery stitches, designs and stitch combinations in India. Lots of them can be found on the internet, on various blogs or on Youtube.
I came across today's stitch at Let's Learn Embroidery and it is called Pointed Tip Buttonhole Knot Flower. It is a version of the Buttonhole Bar Stitch.
Check it out at the link above.
Here is my photo tutorial:
Use two threads in the needle, go from A to B.
in at A again.
Another method is to use ONE strand of thread in the needle.
Then you need to make TWO straight stitches, of course.
Let flowers bloom on these samplers.
Simplified Rice Stitch is easy and fun, but on a fine canvas it takes time to use it as a filling stitch!
Aida Sampler
