Friday Revision Homework - Stitches: 226 -230

Sue exchanged her sunbonnet for a witch's hat, then went trick-or-treating:

'Put some sweets in my Jack-o'-Lantern, or I'll trick this spider into infesting your house forever!'

I have also used Stem Stitch for the outlines and Back Stitch for the spider.

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 226 - 230

Here we go again, it is time to make a summary of five stitches,  226 - 230.

Click on the title for each stitch to get to the instructions.

226 Badass Star Stitch

This is a beautiful stitch, and with a bit of recalculation, you can save a lot of thread by only filling in the front of the fabric.

227 Blanket Stitch Honeycomb

This takes time and you need to keep an eye on the edges, but the result is nice.

228 Zig-zag Palestrina Stitch

Oh, this looks so good, especially on Aida fabric and with short 'legs'.

229 Fancy Laced Running Stitch

Here is a braid for you. There are so many colour combinations you could make...

230 Cone Bullion Knot Stitch

Carrots or flower petals, these are fun bullions to make.

Homework:

Sunbonnet Sue will illustrate what you can do with these five stitches.

Friday Homework for Lesson 230: Cone Bullion Knot Stitch

It was fun to make flower petals with the Cone Bullion Knot Stitch.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Chart

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 230: Cone Bullion Knot Stitch

Why not make a visit to Fa's Kitchen again and see what  Fareeha is cooking up for us? On the menu is Cone Bullion Knot Stitch. Anyone who has 'cooked' the Bullion Knot knows how plumb it is, albeit a bit tricky to get even.

If you have problems getting your Bullion Knots nice and even, maybe this is a stitch for you - the Cone Bullion Knot is a bit wonky as it is thicker/looser at one end.

The first steps are the same as for Bullion Knot:

DON'T wrap the thread tightly round the needle.

Instead, start with a little loop.

Make a few more loose wraps,

then make some tight wraps.

Pull the needle through the wraps carefully. It will look like a mess, but just do it slowly.

Then tighten the thread carefully

and anchor the stitch at the bottom.

Now you have this beautiful cone, for ice cream? or cone-shaped flower petals or it could be a carrot.

The orange Bullion Knot does not really look like a carrot compared to the green Cone Bullion Knots - they can't be ripe yet! By the way, do you say ripe about carrots?

Have fun with your homework: