Friday Revision Homework - Stitches 331 - 335

I'm sorry I'm posting this a day late. I have now recovered from the involuntary 'glue sniffing'caused by yesterday's maintenance work in my home.

Here is the Sunbonnet Sue revision homework for stitches 331 - 335.

REPTILE WARNING!

If you dislike slithering reptiles, stop reading now!

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The Hungarian Braid Chain can be so snakelike, I decided to use this stitch for a snake tattoo on Sue's back.

Her coiffure is also made up of this stitch. 

The mirror frame has Damask Darning carvings.

Sue's towel has a Pachis Work pattern and an Astrakhan Velvet frilled border.

Sue's knickers are broderie anglaise cotton, and her earrings dangling stars. Both knickers and earrings are worked in Irregular Algerian Eyelet Stitch.

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 331 - 335

Let's have have a second look at the five most recent stitches, then use them to make a Sunbonnet Sue sampler.

Click on the title to see the stitch instructions.

331 Astrakhan Velvet Stitch

To make loops of even lengths for this stitch, use a pin.

332 Irregular Algerian Eyelet Star Stitch

With this stitch, you can make a sun, a star, a snowflake, an explosion...

333 Damask Darning Stitch

This is a beautiful Canvas stitch made up of two simple straight stitches, one vertical, the other horisontal. Yet it is hard to get it neat unless you use a grid for guidance.

334 Pachis Work Filling Stitch

Here is one of the great Indian stitches; again, only very simple parts are needed. Like the previous stitch, a grid is the key to success.

335 Hungarian Braided Chain Stitch

Some stitches come alive. This rich braided stitch can wiggle its way  across your foundation fabric,

Homework:

Queenie: Sunbonnet Sue, how on earth can I make a sampler out of these five stitches?

Sue: Trust me, you can. Just wait and see!

Friday Homework for Lesson 332: Irregular Algerian Eylet Star Stitch

 This is such a sunny stitch; it makes me happy to look at it.

Aida Sampler

One warm and one cold!

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

It is too hard to mark this fabric - I eyeballed the stitches.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 332: Irregular Algerian Eyelet Star Stitch

According to Arts & Design, where I found today's stitch,  it is one used for Hardanger.  Be that as it may, I will use it for free form embroidery and on any fabric with a good grid. 

The stitch is called Irregular Algerian Eyelet Star Stitch. The graph with stitch order can be seen at Art & Designs website. Search under the initial I.

Below you can see my own graph and some work-in-progress photos:

Odd numbers are along the outside, and 

even numbers are all inserted in the middle hole.

If you select a fabric with obvious holes, like Aida,

the counting is easy.

Use a stiletto to open the hole in the middle to accommodate 

all the thread that needs to pass through that hole..

Work your way clockwise around the design.

Come out at the edges and go in in the middle.

It's easy peasy and you will reach

half way in no time.

See! It was done in a jiffy! 

Homework:

Let the Irregular Algerian Eyelet Star Stitch light up these samplers.