Friday Revision Homework - Stitches 346 - 350

Here is the Sunbonnet Sue sampler for stitches 346 - 350.

It was #349 Lantern Stitch that set the theme - Sue as a teenager, snogging her boyfriend Sam under a street lamp.

The two cross stitches, #348 Freeform Cross and #350 Over-Under Cross, were useful for a starry sky. 

The Canvas stitch #347 John Stitch turned out to be great for Sue's winter coat, a quilted down coat.

I also like #346 Double Lazy Daisy Stitch for Sue's wavy hair. Believe it or not, but Sam's shaggy hair is made up of a staggered mass of #348 Freeform Cross.

Other stitches are the Stem Stitch and Whipped Back Stitch.

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 346 - 350

 Sue, Sunbonnet Sue! It's time to come out to play!

Yes, we have five stitches to review, and then we can make a Sunbonnet Sue sampler.

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

346 Double Lazy Daisy Stitch

347 John Stitch

348 Freeform Cross Stitch

349 Lantern Stitch

350 Over-Under Cross Stitch

Homework:

Illustrate the stitches with Sunbonnet Sue.

Friday Homework for Lesson 346: Double Lazy Daisy Stitch

 Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth

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