WIPW - Two Zero Zero

 Work In Progress Wednesday for the first week in December 2024.

Hexablooms

I made another set of ten hexagon flowers. The number of completed flowers is now 200.

This time I didn't count every stitch but basically, I made 320 stitches on the Hexablooms project this week, too.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

More voids on the Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler have been filled in with:

Two buttons which were secured with #132 Dandelion Stitch. Furthermore, a green circle of #8 Heavy Chain was filled with one #295 Backstitched German Knot Stitch in purple. The ring of #49 Colonial Knots (light blue) is encircling a scattering of #56 Detached Twisted Chain Stitch (lime green).

So all in all, no spectacular work this week, I'm just trudging on.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 310: Circular Buttonhole Dome

Let's have a historic stitch today! Jacqui Carey, who has written interesting books on Elizabethan stitches, has co-operated with the Royal School of Needlework to add this stitch to their RSN Stitch Bank.

Here is the link to the excellent instructions for the Circular Buttonhole Stitch. There is a useful video, too.

For my photo tutorial, see below:

This is the desired design in the middle of the stitch. You can read more about the ancient Looped Square, or Apple Command key here.

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Here you can see the lower left loop forming.

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Next, the lower right loop.

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Make sure you go under both orange threads.

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So here is the upper right loop, one more to go.

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Go under both orange threads and you'll have your last upper left loop.

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Anchor the stitch in the middle void.

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Congratulations!

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Homework:

Add here.