Friday Revision Homework - Stitches: 341 - 345

This scene with Sunbonnet Sue is off-season. It is obviously winter and cold (in Japan anyway) right now. Summer, though, was hot and LONG. This made the fad of battery-operated and handheld fans stretch long into autumn. 

I made the picture a long time ago, but didn't use it. #345 Barred Buttonhole Wheel Stitch was the perfect stitch to depict the fan, and thus the picture is a memory of this year's prolonged Indian Summer. 

Being glued to the smartphone's screen and showing off a tattoo are also fads or modern trends,  but have no seasons! So is triple-tasking; surely Sue is doing sit-ups too!

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 341 - 345

 It's time to look back at the last five stitches:

341 Bamboo Stitch

This is a nice filling stitch. If you look closely, it does look like the stems of bamboo grass.

342 Broken Chain Stitch

Fish hooks? Dangling earrings?

It's an easy stitch and can be used as a base for other stitches like French Knots or Straight Stitch.

343 Open Fishbone Stitch

Here is the perfect stitch for portraying leaves. It looks very nice in a variegated thread.

344 Persian Star Filling Stitch

Tension is important here, but the result is very pleasing, don't you agree?

345 Barred Buttonhole Wheel Stitch

I love this variation of the traditional Wheel Stitch. If you packed more of the Buttonhole Stitch in each quarter, you would end up with a cross in the middle!

Homework:

Let Sunbonnet Sue illustrate these five stitches, somehow.

Friday Homework for Lesson 343: Open Fishbone Stitch

It is really fun to see the leaves falling onto the fabric. For every little stab the leaves grow and twirl down through the air... ending up in a heap.

Aida Sampler

The holes in the weave were not so useful for placement...

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 343: Open Fishbone Stitch

Inspired by the many fallen leaves we can see in autumn, I want to introduce the Open Fishbone Stitch, which looks great when worked in the shape of a leaf. Here are the instructions on the Royal School of Needlework's Stitch Bank.

You can also find instructions in Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches and Reader's Digest Complete Book of Embroidery.

I made this photo tutorial:

Homework:

Fill here. 

Please note that the Aida Sampler in the picture is full. The baton will be passed on to the new one: