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)
Sorry for handing in my homework a week late. Here is Sunbonnet Sue showing off five stitches while she is daydreaming (night dreaming?) at the open window, gazing at the full moon and starry sky.
After a bit of a break, it is time to review the last five stitches. Click the names of the stitches to get to the instructions.
276 Alternating Wheatear Stitch
This is an attractive version of the standard Wheatear Stitch.
Here is another of the basic embroidery stitches that has been slightly altered.
278 Reversed Palestrina Stitch
If you are left-handed, then this stitch must be easier than the traditional Palestrina Stitch.
Tricky and complex and if you just work the stitch halfway through, you get another attractive stitch. Why not try it out?
I would say that this stitch is a set of Buttonhole Bars made into arches and shaped into flower petals...
Homework:
Sunbonnet Sue is daydreaming somewhere...
I bet this hint, the back of the work, won't give you any obvious answer.
Sorry to be a day late in handing in my homework.
This was a tricky stitch! I like the look of the stitch when it is half finished, in its unwhipped state, better than the wormy version. So I have left two versions on all the samplers.
Aida Sampler
Today you are in for a complex wrapped stitch which I found on Rosalie Wakefield's Millefiori's blogpost of Brazilian stitches. She calls it Spinal Double Stitch and you can see her instructions here.
Make it like this:
Start with a Bullion Knot.
