Friday Revision Homework - Stitches 116 - 120

I N V I T A T I O N

Sunbonnet Sue 

is cordially invited to a Fancy Dress Party at 

The Crystal Ballrooms, Metropolis City

on Friday February 7th 2020

at 9pm.

Sue:   Wow! What fun! I really want to go, but Fancy Dress... What shall I go as? How should I dress?

Queenie:   They didn't invite ME!!! Why??? 

Sue:   Don't sulk! 

Queenie:   Well, IF I had been invited I know just what I would have gone as!

Sue:   You do? Tell me, tell me, tell me please!

Queenie:   You see, I have just learned this fancy stitch, Woven Long Tail Lazy Daisy Stitch.

Sue:   Oh really? How would you use it?

Queenie:   Well, it always reminded me of an Egyptian collar.

Sue:   So you would dress as an Egyptian princess?

Queenie:   Yes, I think so, and the Magic Split Stitch would be excellent for the black hair.

Sue:   Oh, why don't you make me a collar and the wig and the dress and the armbands...

Queenie:   Why should I?!

Sue:   PLEASE!

Queenie:   Oh well, all right then. As I am not invited I guess I could just as well make it for you...

Sue:   You're a great pal!

Queenie:   Pfft... Just remember, it's going to be very windy. So windy your hair will cover your face! No one will see your pretty face, but everyone will see MY costume!

Sue:  Pfft!

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 116 - 120

Sorry there was a holiday last Sunday caused by the quilt show at Tokyo Dome.

We have a lot to catch up on. Let's review stitches 116 - 120.

Click on the headline for instructions and information.

116 Woven Long Tail Chain
This is such a great arrangement, and the variations are many. Play with length or thread.

117 French Knotted Lazy Daisy Stitch
A long name for a simple stitch!

118 Lazy Daisy Picot Stitch
Very similar in looks to the previous stitch, maybe a bit more untidy, though. The workings are totally different.

119 Alternating Magic Split Stitch
This stitch is not difficult at all, but looks impressive. The kind of stitch that gives instant satisfaction for very little input.

120 Magic Split Stitch
Even easier! Maybe not as impressive, though. Smart stitching, double value - two stitches for the price if one.

Homework: Figure out a way to use these stitches for a Sunbonnet Sue block.

Friday Homework for Lesson 120 - Magic Split Stitch

Let me hand in the homework a few hours early this time.

This stitch is just as easy as the previous one, but does not give you such an impressive look. It does produce a nice thick line if worked in one colour. Use two colours in your needle and you have 'Two Stitches For the Effort of One', one line looks like Stem Stitch and the other Outline Stitch.

Aida Sampler

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Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 120: Magic Split Stitch

Welcome to more magic at Sunday Stitch School.

As I promised, this week we will focus on a variation of previous week's Alternating Magic Split Stitch,  the 'un-alternating' version, which I call Magic Split Stitch.

Updated: Mattia says she would call this stitch Point Fendu Magique in French.

As always with stitches I make names for, if you know its real name, please leave a comment and I will adjust.

I actually explored this stitch 2012 and blogged about it here.

You start in the same way as #119, with two threads of different colour in your needle.

Take a Back Stitch between the two threads, 'splitting' them.

From here on is the difference,
you keep the colours in place when you make a new stitch.
Make sure you come out inside the previous stitch.

Continue

and you get Magic Split Stitch.

Something that looks like two mirrored lines of Stem Stitch.
Neat, wouldn't you say?
As well as easy!

Homework:

Work some lines on these samplers.