WIPW - Even More Canvas Stitches

 It is Wednesday and time for another Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

has a magical cornucopia and out of it oozes more canvas stitches:

#162 Cashmere Stitch (orange and purple), 

#137 Brick Stitch (yellow), 

#34 Japanese Stitch (blue, brown and green) 

and also #105 Burden Stitch (green, pink, purple).

There are more stitches that will pop out, hopefully by next Wednesday.

Friday Revision Homework - Stitches 136 - 140

Here is Sunbonnet Sue practicing social distancing. She is chilling out in the Waved Chain Stitch waters of an isolated lake in the middle of nowhere. On the shore Sycamore Stitch plants are growing. Waved Chain Stitch butterflies are fluttering around her and the Tied Windmill Stitch sun is giving her skin a bit of a tan.
Sue has dressed up in her Indian Herringbone Stitch sundress and her Brick Stitch sunbonnet.

Stem Stitch was also used for outlines.

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 136 - 140

It is time for a revision lesson to look at the last five stitches.
Click on the title to see instructions and previous posts for each stitch.

136 Tied Windmill Stitch
This is a beautiful stitch and can be made into different shapes.
Change the spacing, the length of the arms, the placement of the cross, the thread colour, weight and type, and the sky's the limit, as they say.

 137 Brick Stitch
For an even look use a weave with a good grid.


138 Waved Chain Stitch
So easy, so impressive. This is a stitch well worth learning!


139 Sycamore Stitch
A Lego stitch, use it to build various motifs.


140 Indian Herringbone Stitch
This makes such an attractive woven look, perfect for the image of checked tweed etc.



Homework:
It is time for another Sunbonnet Sue sampler.
This time I made use of my molding pads, and fabric crayons to make part of the scene.

Friday Homework for Lesson 137: Brick Stitch

This is best as a canvas stitch, I think.

Canvas Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Teal Wool Tailoring Scribble Cloth

Frihand and uneven!

 Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 137: Brick Stitch

Today's stitch is called Brick Stitch and is a classic stitch, basically the same as the Long and Short Stitch. 

Famous for the use in Needlepainting, a single Long and Short Stitch is well blended in with the neighbouring stitches, like shades of watercolour bleed into each other. 

The idea with the Brick Stitch, however, is that the shape of each stitch should be seen as an individual unit - it should resemble a brick in a brick wall. This will make it a beautiful Canvas stitch.

In total this stitch goes under the names of: 

Brick Stitch

Long and Short Stitch

Algerian Filling Stitch

Kensington Stitch

Plumage Stitch

Shading Stitch

Good instructions can be found at Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials. 

Or have a look at my pictorial instructions on Aida:

Take a horisontal straight stitch over two blocks on the Aida weave.

Make a new stitch above it, this time over three blocks.

Continue alternating between two or three blocks in the same way.

From the second column, and further on, however, 

each stitch should always be over two blocks.

The end of each line will therefore be uneven.

When you reach the end of the shape you are filling in,

 work over two or three holes respectively

to get an even edge.

Completed Brick Stitch wall!

If you are working on plain weave, or use an uneven shape,  

like a leaf, draw lines to guide you.

Homework:

Play around with bricks and mortar and build patterns on these samplers.

While you're at it, why not build a brick wall on the Canvas sampler as well.

As Blogger say they will be switching over to the New Blogger system at the end of June, I have made this blog post on that New Blogger system. It has taken more than double the time, the pictures were very hard to upload and the text could not be indented easily. Does anyone else have problems with the New Blogger?