Friday Revision Homework - Stitches 306 - 310

Sunbonnet Sue is enjoying the cold winter weather. When the first snow fell, she rushed outside to make a snowman.

I usually make all the outlines in Stem Stitch, a stitch outside the five featured stitches for each Sunbonnet Sue sampler. In this particular group of five stitches was a linear stitch, Whipped Backstitch, which I used to outline all the main shapes. Boy, did it take time! Much, much more time than the quick and easy Stem Stitch would have taken. It was a good lesson to learn what linear stitch to use when. So, if you have little time, don't use the Whipped Backstitch. If you want a beautiful, even line, though, and have the time, go for the WB. 

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 306 - 310

These last five stitches seem to have very little in common. How am I going to work them into a Sunbonnet Sue sampler?

Let's revisit them. If you click the title a link will take you to the instructions.

306 Whipped Back Stitch

This is definitely the easiest of the five stitches, yet it is a very attractive stitch.

307 Rhodes Diamond Stitch

Here is another member of the Rhodes family. I like that the diamond can be either a square on point, or a real diamond shape - long and tapering.

308 Crossed Cretan Stitch

It takes a bit of time to get into the rhythm, but once you have got it, you have got it!

309 Chessboard Filling Stitch

Here is a neat canvas stitch. Nice and hardwearing.

310 Circular Buttonhole Dome Stitch

This stitch has been around for a long time. There are many possibilities here, play around with colour and different types of thread.

Homework:

Let Sue have seasonal fun!

Friday Homework for Lesson 309: Chessboard Filling Stitch

It was nice to work with a Canvas stitch again. It was quicker to stitch than expected, and I even managed to fill in a square on my Canvas Sampler.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

Canvas Sampler

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 309: Chessboard Filling Stitch

 Let's do a canvas stitch today!

This one is from Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches. It's called Chessboard Filling Stitch.

You can also see it in Royal School of Needlework's Stitch Bank.

Here is my photo tutorial:

Make four straight stitches.

Leave a gap and make another set of four stitches.

Continue until you have filled in your area.

Change to a different colour thread.

Make a Cross Stitch on top of the previous stitches.

Anchor the Cross Stitch with a small vertical stitch in the middle.

Below is the same spacing as seen in Mary Thomas's book.

Here I have placed the groups of stitches closer together.

Homework:

Fill in some space here.