Friday Reviosion Homework - Stitches 311 - 315

When I work the Sunbonnet Sue illustration for the revision homework, I usually stitch the outlines with Stem Stitch and use the five homework stitches for the actual picture, for example, the texture of Sunbonnet Sue's clothes and her hair.

Stem Stitch is an easy and quick stitch and one of my favourites. For this Sunbonnet Sue picture, I wanted to outline everything with Split Stitch as it was one of the five set stitches. 

Ha! It took MUCH longer than I had expected to work the illustration this way. There are also a lot of lines in this particular picture. Anyway, here she finally is:

Instead of a sunbonnet it is a camera that obscures her face. It also tells you that my Sunbonnet Sue is a photographer. More on her story in future blogposts.

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 311 - 315

 Sue! Sunbonnet Sue! Wake up! It is time for a review of the five most recent Sunday Stitch School's stitches. Sue, you have to tell us another story from your life! You know it is the homework!

First, let's have a look at the five stitches.

Click on the title to see the stitch instructions for each stitch.

311 Seed Stitch

312 Closed Buttonhole Stitch

313 Darning Stitch

314 Split Stitch

315 Threaded Detached Chain Stitch

Homework: Make a Sunbonnet Sue illustration.

Friday Homework for Lesson 311: Seed Stitch

 It is an easy stitch, but it can be tricky to scatter the stitches evenly over the area you want to cover.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 311: Seed Stitch

2025 got off to a bad start with fatigue and one setback after another. Finally, I am ready to re-open Sunday Stitch School again.

While resting and gaining my strength back, I reviewed my stitch collection. Several of the basic stitches had not yet been included. 

Back in July 2021, I introduced stitch #177 Double Seed Stitch. However, I should have started with the single version, so let's do that today.

Therefore, this week's stitch is Seed Stitch, also known as Seeding Stitch and Speckling Stitch, according to Reader's Digest Complete Book of Embroidery. 

In Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, its other names are Seed Filling Stitch and Isolated Back Stitch.

It's an easy stitch, you simply scatter a number of short Straight Stitches, 

in various directions over an area to be filled.

Homework: Add here