Friday Revision Homework - Stitches: 206 - 210

 I like monochrome prints, you know, blue on blue, yellow on yellow, blue on blue. That is why I first coloured Sunbonnet Sue's clothes with wax crayons, set the wax with a hot iron and then embroidered on top of in the same colour as the crayon.

Sue is walking with heavy steps into a future of uncertainty ... Hopefully she will find solidarity, hope and peace along the way.

Other stitches used: 

Stem Stitch for the outlines and movement of skirt and scarf, 

Straight Stitch to add extra petals on the sunflower, 

a triple Star Filling Stitch for the centre of the flower.

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 206 - 210

Time to look back at the five most recent stitches and then make a Sunbonnet Sue sampler.

Click on the title to get the instructions.

206 Rapid Stitch

Great on Canvas, but can also be used for individual stitches

207 Plaited Edge Stitch

This really is a great stitch to strengthen and/or adorn an edge, even a raw and fraying one.

208 Star Filling Stitch

I have used this stitch on endless projects, yet for years I failed to add it to the Sunday Stitch School's collection. Why, I wonder...

This is such a pretty stitch. Play around with different thread!

209 Padded Cross Stitch

I called this cheating, because it is so easy just to double the stitch. 

Actually I should  say it is well within 'legal limits' of what we can do to a stitch, in my opinion anyway. Or is there a stitch police out there who disagrees?

After all a Berry Stitch is just a doubling of a Lazy Daisy Stitch, isn't it? We really should be able to do a 'Padded' Running Stitch, Fly Stitch, Wheatear Stitch... Indeed any stitch could be 'padded'!

210 Closed Fly Stitch

Here is another stitch that should have been introduced LONG ago. 

Dear Closed Fly Stitch, please accept my apologises for keeping you in the shadow for such a long time. Please come out and SHINE!

Homework:

Let Sunbonnet Sue show off these five stitches as best she can.

 

Friday Homework for Lesson 208: Star Filling Stitch

 Instant success! So easy, so impressive.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

Sunday Stitch School: Lesson 208 - Star Filling Stitch

 I don't know why I haven't added this beautiful stitch before; I have used it on innumerable projects. 

You can vary it by using various threads or threads in two or three different colours, change the size of each cross or the length of each leg. It can be strict and tidy, or free and wonky.

We are talking about the Star Filling Stitch which is made up of a Cross Stitch, an Upright Cross Stitch (or St George Cross Stitch) and a smaller Cross Stitch that ties the other two crosses to the fabric.

I found it in several of my books, and on the internet, of course, e.g. Textile Research Centre, or Needle Crafter

Here are my photo instructions:

Homework:

Add here.