Friday Revision Homework: Stitches 126 - 130

It was Linda at Linsartyblobs who suggested I used Sydd Tofs to depict Sunbonnet Sue as a cheerleader with pompoms. What a great idea! Thank you Linda.

Now what team is Sunbonnet Sue leading us to cheer for?
It is of course the universal team of people fighting the Corona Virus and its devastating impact on our lives and livelihood.

Let's root for

• the heroic medical workers risking their own lives,
• scientists and researchers trying to find a vaccin and a cure,
• teachers, students or workers struggling to keep up with scheduled activities from home,
• the masses of people who have suddenly become unemployed, and maybe evicted, too
• those who have lost businesses,
• world leaders trying to solve new and unpredictable problems,
• lonely people struggling with isolation and depression,
• medical workers and patients who are facing discrimination
• families trying to keep peace in cramped homes,
• victims of domestic violence,
• all the people whose plans for surgery, weddings, holidays, exams... have been postponed
• those masses who have lost loved ones...
• and of course, all those patients who are fighting for their lives right now.

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 126 - 130

How quickly this five-week period of new stitches has passed. Let's repeat the stitches and then make a Sunbonnet Sue sampler.

Click on the title to go to instructions and homework.

126 Sydd Tofs
A beautiful fluffy stitch. It will add a new dimension to any embroidery.

 127 Amadeus Stitch
This, too, is so flexible in its 'put together into any constellation',  it will add a fresh look to traditional embroidery designs.


128 Four Legged Stitch
So basic, so useful, so easy, - and so tricky to unstitch, so be careful!


129 Olga's Petal Stitch
Wow! This was a totally new way of stitching. Can we call it surface drawn work?
Many shapes can be made, not only petals.


130 Antwerp Edging Stitch
Easy and quick, you can get two different looks depending on if you keep a tight tension or give the thread some slack.
It can be used not only on the folded edge, but as a surface linear stitch, too.

Homework:
How can I best use these stitches for Sunbonnet Sue? Well, I got a nice idea from one of my blog readers!

Friday Homework for Lesson 129: Olga's Petal Stitch

I don't know if this week's stitch can be classified as a stitch or a technique. Anyway, Olga's Petals are surprisingly easy to stitch, and make nice flowers - or bugs!

That is what I think the stitch looks like on the
Aida Sampler
A row of cockroaches! Yuck!

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Teal Wool Tailoring Scribble Cloth
This is where I got the best results, so Olga's Petal Stitch is definitely best as a Freeform surface stitch.

I inserted a piece of fabric in the orange petal.
The pink flower was stitched using variegated thread and I covered the void in middle of the flower with a button.

If you watched the video in Sunday's lesson, you saw that Olga outlined her petals with knotted stitch. The video is very fast and I have tried to identify the stitch, but am not sure what it is. Could it be a mirrored Palestrina Stitch? Does anyone know?

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 129: Olga's Petal Stitch

I was surfing YouTube and found a nice site of embroidery from, what I think is, Brazil. Artesd'Olga.
Among them was this beautiful petal made up of wrapped threads. I did not register a name for it, so will call it Olga's Petal Stitch.
Should you know the name, origin, or have any other information about this stitch, please leave a message in my comment box.

Here is a set of my instruction photos, and then there is a link to the excellent video itself.

You need to stretch the fabric in a hoop
and mark the outlines of the petal.
Then take a long thread and
come out at the bottom.

Fan out long surface stitches.

Repeat on the other side.

Take the thread out at the bottom, 

middle.

Insert the needle with the eye

(or change to a blunt tipped needle)

and wrap the working thread

around the surface stitches.

As you work your way upwards

skip a stitch (between red and blue)

until

you have wrapped the inner part

of the stitches so the petal keeps

its shape and the wrapping 

tapers towards the top.

Repeat on the other side.

...................
Depending on the shape of the petal
(here an oval) and which surface stitches
you wrap, you can get various shapes.

The centre will always be open, and there you can of course add other stitches or insert a piece of fabric. A kind of Shisha Stitch if you like...

And here is the promised video link, enjoy!

Homework:

Play around with the samplers.

How will Olga's Petal Stitch look on Aida, I wonder?