Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 347: John Stitch

 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:

Homework:

Add to the samplers

If there is time, also fill a square on the Canvas Sampler.

Friday Homework for Lesson 346: Double Lazy Daisy Stitch

 Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth

WIPW - Ready for Another 35 Stitches

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.

When I visited the quilt contest in Nakano, I was given a handkerchief-sized piece of fabric, which you can see - it is the one in yellow with white beans. I basted some petals and made one more flower. Then I made two more blocks with animal prints on.

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.

I now have seven charts for Sunday Stitch School, from Stitch #1 - #345:

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!

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 346: Double 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!!!)

Among them, there was no Double Lazy Daisy Stitch, nor a Double Detached Chain Stitch. Yet, the stitch looked so familiar... I must have seen it somewhere before.

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, 

and it was a TAST stitch I learned while taking part in Sharon Boggon's online stitch initiative in 2012.  You can see my blogpost here.

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:

or make it a Triple Lazy Daisy Stitch