Today we will have the last stitch of 2025, which will, with its light, lead us into 2026.
I am talking about the Lantern Stitch. You can find it at Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials.
Do you remember #329 Radiation Stitch? If you do, this will be easy. Simply make two mirrored Radiation Stitches with equal-length rays and work Back Stitch where they join.
Follow my photo tutorial, and you will see how easy it is:
It is almost impossible to go wrong with this stitch, whatever type of thread you use.
Aida Sampler
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth
Today's Work In Progress Wednesday report has only news of one project, namely
Hexablooms
where I have been working hard to stitch together blocks. I have lost count of how many are done, I'm afraid. Preparing for Christmas has taken up a lot of time.
Today, you are free to stitch anything, as long as you cross two Straight Stitches.
On Pintangle's website, you will find the Free-form Cross Stitch. Thanks, Sharon, for yet another little great stitch.
Work it like this:
Homework:
Add here, please.
Easy but time-consuming is my verdict. It was fun to work with different coloured thread.
Aida Sampler
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth
In this Work In Progress Wednesday report, I will show you the
Bookmark
I made earlier, but only showed you the back of.
Now, here is the front.
Hexablooms
I stitched together some long lengths of blocks.
Today, we have a Canvas stitch. You can see instructions for it at the Royal School of Needlework's Stitch Bank.
Here is my photograph stitch tutorial:
Aida Sampler
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
December is the busiest month of the year. Yet, I managed to put in quite a lot of stitch-related work.
Here is my Work In Progress Wednesday report.
Hexablooms
I arranged and numbered three piles of hexagon flowers. They are now ready to be added to the flimsy.
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
With stitch #345 I had completed the old chart. It was time to type the number and name of each stitch, then print out the list on cotton fabric, cut out each label and stitch it on.
Add to that, the 155 TAST stitches that are on three samplers:
In total 500 stitches learned since 2012:
So the next step was to make a new chart. I drew the boxes and stitched the lines with black thread. The butterfly print strips of fabric were stitched on as support fabric so that I can easily put the sampler in a hoop.
While I was on it, I stitched on the labels for the first five stitches, 346 - 350 (only the name of the first stitch, Double Lazy Daisy Stitch, is visible; on the other four boxes, I blurred out the names. I don't want to spoil the fun of not knowing what stitch is coming up next!
Sunday Stitch School Indigo Stitch Sampler
I added the latest stitch, Double Lazy Daisy Stitch, but they are actually Triple Lazy Daisy Stitch!
