Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 226 - 230

Here we go again, it is time to make a summary of five stitches,  226 - 230.

Click on the title for each stitch to get to the instructions.

226 Badass Star Stitch

This is a beautiful stitch, and with a bit of recalculation, you can save a lot of thread by only filling in the front of the fabric.

227 Blanket Stitch Honeycomb

This takes time and you need to keep an eye on the edges, but the result is nice.

228 Zig-zag Palestrina Stitch

Oh, this looks so good, especially on Aida fabric and with short 'legs'.

229 Fancy Laced Running Stitch

Here is a braid for you. There are so many colour combinations you could make...

230 Cone Bullion Knot Stitch

Carrots or flower petals, these are fun bullions to make.

Homework:

Sunbonnet Sue will illustrate what you can do with these five stitches.

Friday Homework for Lesson 230: Cone Bullion Knot Stitch

It was fun to make flower petals with the Cone Bullion Knot Stitch.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Chart

WIPW - It's Autumn

Autumn is here and leaves are falling off the trees onto the Work In Progress Wednesday projects.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

#101 Rose Leaf Stitch in DMC's variegated orange stranded cotton, and #112 Raised Closed Herringbone Stitch in orange Perle #8 fell down in a whirlwind.

Mandala

Leaves made with  #210 Closed Fly Stitch fell nearby the pink circles. 

I used Sharon's hand-dyed silk perle - a delight to stitch with. You can buy her Thread Twisties from Pintangle.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 230: Cone Bullion Knot Stitch

Why not make a visit to Fa's Kitchen again and see what  Fareeha is cooking up for us? On the menu is Cone Bullion Knot Stitch. Anyone who has 'cooked' the Bullion Knot knows how plumb it is, albeit a bit tricky to get even.

If you have problems getting your Bullion Knots nice and even, maybe this is a stitch for you - the Cone Bullion Knot is a bit wonky as it is thicker/looser at one end.

The first steps are the same as for Bullion Knot:

DON'T wrap the thread tightly round the needle.

Instead, start with a little loop.

Make a few more loose wraps,

then make some tight wraps.

Pull the needle through the wraps carefully. It will look like a mess, but just do it slowly.

Then tighten the thread carefully

and anchor the stitch at the bottom.

Now you have this beautiful cone, for ice cream? or cone-shaped flower petals or it could be a carrot.

The orange Bullion Knot does not really look like a carrot compared to the green Cone Bullion Knots - they can't be ripe yet! By the way, do you say ripe about carrots?

Have fun with your homework:

Friday Homework for Lesson 229: Fancy Laced Running Stitch

 It is Friday and show time. Out with the homework!

Aida Sampler

This was the easiest to work on. The holes are all there and therefore the spacing becomes neat.

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Here I had to mark the plain fabric with pencil marks. It took a bit of time.

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

For this sampler I used waste canvas to  make the spacing easy.

Photographing this fabric is still a challenge.

WIPW - An Explosion Book

 Work In Progress Wednesday is not all about fabric today. I made some paper craft.

An Explosion Book

I was reading Annet's blog Fat-Quarter and found this lovely squash book. There you can also see a reference to a great video tutorial, where the book is called an explosion book.

As I had to make a wedding gift I thought I would use photos from my album, add love-related text and cut them to fit the pages of the book.

It was an easy and fun project. Annet, many thanks!

Mandala

I stitched down the circles!

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

Autumn leaves are falling onto the sampler: #210 Closed Fly Stitch (green), #61 Raised Fishbone (orange silk) and #151 Bengali Petal Stitch (orange wool)

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 229: Fancy Laced Running Stitch

Let's make magic with five lines of Running Stitch! One can lace them in a variety of ways. 

Today we'll learn from Anita of Artistic Fingers to make Fancy Laced Running Stitch. Her tutorial is excellent, and you don't need mine, but here it is anyway:

Homework:

Add here:

Friday Homework for Lesson 228: Zig-zag Palestrina Knot Stitch

 Oh, it is like meeting an old friend one has been out of touch with for a long time! I love Palestrina Stitch and had almost forgotten how much, now with the Zig-zag version all the good feelings came back.

Do give this lovely stitch a try!

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

WIPW - Blurry Gold and Sharp Circles

 Work In Progress Wednesday report.

I don't know if it is me or the camera, but recently the photos I take often become blurry.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

I only had time for one stitch, #228 Zig-zag Palestrina Knot Stitch.

Mandala

The pink ricrac I added last week was covered with Zig-zag Chain Stitch.

Furthermore, I prepared 12 circles, which photographed well!

These will be added to the ricrac.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 228: Zig-zag Palestrina Knot Stitch

Palestrina Stitch is a popular and well-known stitch; therefore, there is likely to be at least one version of it. 

I found the Zig-zag Palestrina Knot Stitch at Arts & Design. You could also call the stitch Alternating Palestrina Knot Stitch, I guess.

Work it like this:

Come out on an imaginary line, take a bite from above it.

Next, go under the thread only.

Once more, go under the thread without biting the fabric, 

and place the stitch on the right.

Place the thread UNDER the needle.

You have now made one traditional Palestrina Stitch.

Remember that imaginary line? Take the next stitch UNDER the line.

The third stitch is worked like the first one, above the line. 

Continue to alternate above and below the line.

Compare the Zig-zag Palestrina Knot Stitch in blue with the traditional Palestrina Stitch in orange.

They look different on the back, too.

Homework:

Work on the three samplers.