The Closed Buttonhole Stitch is such an attractive stitch, don't you agree?
Aida Sampler
Wouldn't it look good if whipped? Wouldn't it look great with a bead or knot in the void of the triangle?
This is a great stitch for crazy quilting,
Work In Progress Wednesday can report another set of ten
Hexablooms
which brings the total to 250.
New! Bookmarks
I have started on a series of bookmarks. This is the reverse...
Here is another stitch that I have overlooked - it should have been added long ago! Never mind, here is my photo tutorial, following Reader's Digest Complete Book of Embroidery:
It is an easy stitch, but it can be tricky to scatter the stitches evenly over the area you want to cover.
Aida Sampler
I am sorry not to have made much to report for Work In Progress Wednesday this year. In the last week, though, I managed to make another set of ten
Hexablooms
for the hexagon scrap quilt. In total, I now have 240 blocks.
The white with grey and turquoise flowers is a print from the same era. Mum had made me a blouse to wear in nursery school. It holds a traumatic memory - I was chased by some nasty boys, fell on my face, and the nosebleed that followed was spectacular. I still remember the beautiful turquoise flowers being drenched in scarlet red, and the nightmare of the event still haunts me. Luckily, the fabric I used was a piece of leftover, as the blood-stained blouse itself was discarded long ago, of course.
Finally, the withe and blue striped fabric is from pyjamas my husband's aunt made for a member of our family.
It is emotional to look at the fabric in these three blocks and remember the clothes and the person who wore them. There will be so many things to remember when looking at the completed quilt.
2025 got off to a bad start with fatigue and one setback after another. Finally, I am ready to re-open Sunday Stitch School again.
While resting and gaining my strength back, I reviewed my stitch collection. Several of the basic stitches had not yet been included.
Back in July 2021, I introduced stitch #177 Double Seed Stitch. However, I should have started with the single version, so let's do that today.
Therefore, this week's stitch is Seed Stitch, also known as Seeding Stitch and Speckling Stitch, according to Reader's Digest Complete Book of Embroidery.
In Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, its other names are Seed Filling Stitch and Isolated Back Stitch.
It's an easy stitch, you simply scatter a number of short Straight Stitches,
in various directions over an area to be filled.
Sorry, but there is no new stitch for Sunday Stitch School today. The teacher is on sick leave. Hope to be well and back by next Sunday.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
2025 is the Year Of The Snake according to the Chinese zodiac, which is also followed in Japan.
This snake was made in May 2012, when I had just learned 17 new stitches in Sharon Boggon's TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday). The orange markings of the snake are made with TAST #17 Crossed Buttonhole Stitch.
I also wish that peace, stability and health will prosper all over the world.
My final wish is that Queenie's Needlework will be prosperous and that my quilting and embroidery will flourish.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my readers.
For more about the Snake year, go to Hokkaido Kudasai
