Friday Revision Homework - Stitches: 336 - 340

Thank you for waiting patiently and giving me an extra week to complete the Revision Homework.

Sunbonnet Sue has always liked skating. I made this one in February 2018. Sue was just a little girl.

As a young teenager, she kept on skating. This time on a frozen lake, although the ice wasn't very thick... Do you think she went in or escaped a dip in the ice-cold water?

Here is a close-up of the Shadow Stitch. Can you see the pattern through the sheer fabric?

Sunday Stitch School - Revision Stitches: 336 - 340

I have been, and will continue to be, busy. 

In my haste, I made two mistakes in some previous blog posts. The new stitches were called 329 and 330, but they are actually 339 and 340. The blog post titles have now been corrected.

The coming week will see me occupied with a lot of things other than stitching. The Sunbonnet Sue homework will have to wait for at least another week.

However, let's review the five most recent stitches. If you click on the title, you will be sent to the instructions page.

336 Shadow Stitch

A Closed Herringbone Stitch sewn on the reverse will give you two parallel lines of Back Stitch on the front. If you use, as you should, sheer fabric, you can see a shadowy pattern of swirls between the Backstitched lines.

337 Barred Witch Stitch

338 Persian Border Stitch

339 All-Over Stitch

340 Laced Buttonhole Stitch

Homework:

Make a Sunbonnet Sue motif with the five stitches. Try to have it done in two weeks.

Friday Homework for Lesson 338: Persian Border Stitch

This couching stitch should be worked over several long stretches of thread, but why not couch down a piece of ribbon?

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth

The ribbon has sturdy edges, whereas the lengths of thread in the previous samples tend to sag slightly in the middle.

Look at the beautiful sheen of the red silk.

As for the challenge of marking the silk fabric. It was easy to mark it with an ordinary lead pencil. It remains to be seen if the silk will take well to a charcoal pencil, too.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 338: Persian Border Stitch

Today's new stitch is #338 Persian Border Stitch. 

I picked up this couching stitch from Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials.  Click here to see her tutorial.

Below are my photo instructions:

In the example above, I placed the stitches close to each other. I also used the same hole in the Aida weave for the pink couching thread.

Below, I spaced the couching stitches further apart and made them taller  (two holes in the Aida).

The two versions look quite different, don't they?