Friday Homework for Lesson 308: Crossed Cretan Stitch

 This stitch is much easier than I first thought. Unfortunately, I don't think it is particularly attractive.

Aida Sampler

 Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

I wonder where I will use this stitch... and how on earth am I going to use it for the Sunbonnet Sue sampler... Some stitches give you a headache!

WIPW - Filling In More Gaps

How fast a week has passed! Here is the Work In Progress Wednesday report on what I have done in the last seven days.

Hexablooms

Another ten flowers have been added to the collection of finished blocks, the total is now 180.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

I have been adding new stitches to fill in some more gaps.

#249 Fly Stitch Rose Stitch and #288 Fairy Lights.

#44 Mille Fleur Stitch and #9 Interlaced Running Stitch.

 

Correction

After having been contacted by the maker of some quilts I posted about from the quilt show in Yokohama last year, I have corrected that blog post. You can find the corrections here.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 308: Crossed Cretan Stitch

Are you ready for a tricky stitch? I first found Crossed Cretan Stitch at Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials and then on YouTube at Royal Embroideries. Do have a look.

I must admit that this stitch does not look like a Cretan Stitch (see below) at all, but rather a crowned Herringbone Stitch (as seen in the video).

Anyway, here is my photo tutorial.

Start with the first part of the Cretan Stitch.

Then take a diagonal stitch, but leave a small space open.

Take a horizontal Back Stitch and come out where the open space was.

Here you can see the four spikes of a crown, or is it a rooster's comb?

Repeat the procedure for the lower part of the stitch,

and make sure to place the thread under the needle.

Go on.

It's a rather unusual stitch, don't you agree?

Homework:

Add here.

Friday Homework for Lesson 307: Rhodes Diamond Stitch

Like all the other Rhodes stitches, this is a beauty.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

WIPW - Seeing Red

If last week's Work In Progress Wednesday report was gloomy grey, this week I have a bunch of smoldering and flaming red

Hexablooms 

to show you,

170 hexagon flowers are now in my box. 

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

Two more circles were added to fill in a void in the border. 

#81 Reversed Fly Stitch in red on top of a circle of white felt.

 #71: Twisted Fly Stitch encircled by two layers of Buttonhole Stitch, the latter (pink) whipped over the former (turquoise). Not a tidy result, I'm afraid.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 307: Rhodes Diamond Stitch

You already know that I love Rhodes Stitch. Did you also know that I love diamonds? So you can understand how happy I am to show you the Rhodes Diamond Stitch today!

Check out the instructions at Piecework Magazine.com (scroll down to Figure 4, for the Diamond version).

I made two graphs, one (red) is the same as in the instructions above, 

and the other (blue) is the frugal style where you can save some thread as it has little thread on the back.

Here are my photo tutorials for both stitches:

On the back, you can easily see the difference in the amount of thread needed.

Homework: Sprinkle some diamonds here.

Friday Homework for Lesson 306: Whipped Back Stitch

There is little to say about this stitch, just that it is easy and beautiful.

Maybe I should add that whipping the Back Stitch line is a good way to hide any unevenness in the length of the stitches.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

It is hard to tell which line has Back Stitch in brown and whipping in light blue and which is the other way round.

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

If you whip with a hairy wool yarn you get a very fuzzy look.

WIPW - Gloomy - like the weather

 This is a Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Hexablooms

It is cloudy, dull and grey today. By chance, most of the ten hexagon flowers I have stitched are in shades of gloomy grey, too.

I will have to select more cheerful colours for the next set of ten.

In total, I now have 160 Hexabloom flowers.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

I have continued to fill in gaps in the sampler. This time on the right side of the wool fabric, where there is a cluster of circles.

I only had time for this circle of #198 Whipped Wheatear and #139 Sycamore Stitch. More next week, I hope.