WIPW - Almost Ready to Gallop Away

Here is the report for this week's WIPW - 'Work In Progress Wednesday':

Hexablooms

Here are two before-and-after pictures.

November 2025. There were 204 blocks.

January 2026. There are now 292 blocks.

The Year of the Horse

The saddle now has its fenders, and the horse most of its hair. 

The Dalecarlian Horse is almost ready to gallop away. I think this decoration for 2026, the year of the horse, will be ready by next week's WIPW.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 352: Battlement Stitch

The Battlement Stitch, today's new stitch, must not be confused with the Battlement Filling Stitch or the Battlement Couching Stitch. Those latter names are for a laid stitch pattern in which long straight stitches are laid horizontally and vertically, then couched down. We will eventually learn it, but for today, let's concentrate on the Battlement Stitch. It's easy-peasy, just stagger Buttonhole Stitches.

I found it in Pintangle's Stitch Dictionary.

Please also have a look at my photos:

Change the colour and add a new

row below, offset by one or a few holes.

Add another row in a different colour.

OR, work every row in the same colour.

Homework:

Add here, 

Friday Homework for Lesson 351: Twisted Chain Stitch

 For every stitch I add to Sunday Stitch School, I learn something other than the stitch itself. 

Last week, I understood why the Twisted Chain Stitch felt so familiar. In 2012 I learned it while taking part in TAST, Take A Stitch Tuesday. The stitch was #12 Barred and Alternating Barred Chain, where the 'arm' is long and sticking out like the spike in barbed wire. 

This week, I discovered that when you make the Twisted Chain Stitches short and place them close together, you get another stitch - the Rope Stitch, which was also a TAST stitch, #110. Here is a link to the blogpost of May 5th 2014.

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Now for my homework.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth

The last four stitches would technically be Barred Chain Stitch, wouldn't they?

WIPW - Saddling the Horse

Wow, how fast can a week go? Time and its various speeds never cease to amaze me! Here is my Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Hexablooms

I didn't work on the flimsy itself,  but made a few new hexagon blocks and then basted more of those white 'in-between-the-blocks' hexagon pieces.

The Year of the Horse

I managed to saddle the horse with a colourful seat. Can you see that I made use of a recent Sunday Stitch School stitch? The Over-Under Cross Stitch.