It has been a productive week to show for Work In Progress Wednesday.
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler
The following stitches were added:
#261 Y-Edge Stitch (pink thread on turquoise silk appliqué), #262 Star of David Stitch (pink), #263 Six-Pointed Star Stitch (purple), #279 Spinal Double Stitch (light blue and pink variegated and purple)
I want to feature Sunbonnet Sue at many stages of her life.
Here she is in her teens, brooding over life, love, school, music, God, the future, acne, plastic marine pollution.... She is wondering whether to join the fencing team or embroidery club at school, to make do with her pocket money or get a part-time job after school, to continue to wait for Sam in the year above to call or to be brave enough to text him, to apply for an exchange student programme and go abroad for a year... or should she give in to the pressure from her friends and try that party drug, or join the volunteers and clean up the beach, or...
Poor Sue is thinking so hard she's got a splitting headache.
Did you have an identity crisis in your youth?
Before Sunbonnet Sue decides what she will be up to this time, let's review the last five stitches. Click on the title for a link to the instructions.
In looks it is very similar to #263 Plaited Fly Stitch or a line of Fly Stitch rubbing shoulders. However, when worked over a folded edge, you can see the difference.
Is Sue going to work it on an edge or not?
This is one of the first stars I learned to draw as a child - two triangles on top of each other, one upside down. To stitch it, you 'draw' it in a totally different way.
See what happens when the stitcher can't stop with a Star of David but continues to work the needle and thread around the shape. Magic!
You need only one thread. You make a long stitch and then couch it down on the way back. The coaching part of the stitch is rather wide, so you might not work out how the stitch is made at first glance.
It covers the foundation fabric nicely. You need, however, a good supply of thread in your stash for this hungry stitch. Worked on Aida it looks very neat with tidy edges. In freeform style, it can get a bit shaggy if you are not careful, or if that is your wish.
See how the humble Running Stitch (TAST #10) can dress itself up.
This is the back of the homework, not a single stitch has been made yet to show you what Sue is doing.
Double homework this time!
Aida Sampler
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth
Roumanian Couching was also easy to do on the wool, but the edges are uneven...
Today we have a star stitch! Yes, it is a star, and it has six points. If you looked at Mary Corbet's stitch tutorial in my previous blog post, you know all about today's stitch. If not, you can find her tutorial for Star Stitch here.
In her article, she also has a link to a website where you can print out the circles the star is based on, so if you did not make the template last week, you can use such a circle instead.
So you start with a #262 Star of David, which we learned last Sunday, and stitch on top of it.
Follow my photo tutorial:
First, you need to imagine the stitch order.
