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!
It takes time to learn stitches. With a stitch-a-week tempo, I obviously grow one week older for each stitch. It seems I also grow more forgetful by one week for each stitch I learn.
Today, I have a simple stitch - Double Lazy Daisy Stitch. As you have probably guessed, it consists of two Detached Chain Stitches, one worked outside the other.
I stumbled across it in a library book, "1000 のステッチ - The Techniques for Over 1000 Stitches EMBROIDERY", a thick book published by Japanese ONDORI.
What an obvious stitch the Double Lazy Daisy Stitch is! Why had I not included it in my collection before? I rushed home and checked my TAST and my Sunday Stitch School Reference lists - small cards I keep on rings.
(Impressive, aren't they? 155 TAST and 345 Sunday Stitch School stitches, in total 500!!!)
Happy-go-lucky, I set about making a photo tutorial and a new card to add to the collection on the rings shown above.
As I was also preparing a new Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart cloth with lines, I added the labels for the first five stitches.
So there it was, the name already on the chart and on a ring card, a photo tutorial edited, and the blogpost ready to be published...
And THEN it struck me. I HAVE made this stitch before! WHERE is it? Under WHAT name did I make it?With a fine toothcomb, I went over my charts, and finally I found it.
Double Lazy Daisy Stitch, also goes by the name of BERRY STITCH,
Oh no, what shall I do? All this work prepared and no good...., but hang on. There is no photo tutorial in the blogpost of 2012!
So the long and the short of it is that I will include this stitch once more, this time with instructions and an alternative, Triple Lazy Daisy Stitch, as you can add a third stitch outside the other two!
Here goes:
This scene with Sunbonnet Sue is off-season. It is obviously winter and cold (in Japan anyway) right now. Summer, though, was hot and LONG. This made the fad of battery-operated and handheld fans stretch long into autumn.
I made the picture a long time ago, but didn't use it. #345 Barred Buttonhole Wheel Stitch was the perfect stitch to depict the fan, and thus the picture is a memory of this year's prolonged Indian Summer.
Being glued to the smartphone's screen and showing off a tattoo are also fads or modern trends, but have no seasons! So is triple-tasking; surely Sue is doing sit-ups too!
Work In Progress Wednesday.
I have a finish today - the last out of five bookmarks was completed.
Bookmark
Yes, I made a bookmark for each of a group of five friends. The last bookmark is now completed and winging its way across the Globe. I will show you only the felt-covered back today and the full embroidery once the bookmark has reached the recipient.
Sunday Stitch School Indigo Stitch Sampler
For Stitch #345 Barred Buttonhole Wheel, I fastened a real button and a piece of round felt.
