Anyone who has taken part in TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday), an educational stitch challenge by Sharon Boggon on her Pintangle blog, will have learned the Oyster Stitch. If you are unfamiliar with this stitch, look at her excellent tutorial. It is also featured in many stitch dictionaries.
Today's stitch comes from another blog, Artistic Fingers, where Anita teaches us a variation of the Oyster Stitch. She calls it Single Knotted Cable Chain Stitch; her tutorial is here.
For my photo tutorial, I worked first the Oyster Stitch in pink, and then next to it, the Single Knotted Cable Stitch in blue. As you can see, Sharon and Anita stitch in different directions.
Oyster Stitch from up to down.
from down to up.
resulting in a 'paper clip' loop.
The anchor stitch could be close to
Homework:
The main difference between Oyster and
Single Knotted Cable Chain comes here:
You bite a longer bit of fabric,
the loop and
thereby short, or
long,
or multiple in numbers.
Should you turn the stitch sideways, well,
there you have 'Eye Stitch', or maybe 'Fish Stitch'!
Homework:
Try Single Knotted Cable Chain Stitch out here.
I remember the oyster stitch from when I participated in TAST. There are always variations to the stitches!
ReplyDeleteWhat about 'alien stitch' ?
ReplyDeleteI can fit that into my October slice.
ReplyDeleteNow, those two are interesting to compare, aren't they!
ReplyDeleteI like the oyster stitch and the Single Knotted Cable Chain Stitch looks as though some clever uses are just waiting to happen.
ReplyDeleteI remember doing that stitch for TAST. Thanks for the link to Anita's blog.
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