Finally, Sunbonnet Sue is here!
Sue needed to STRETCH the time with an extra week before she could show up here for the Revision Homework of stitches 351 - 355.
What has she been doing, then? Well, she's been STRETCHING and working out in the gym to be bikini fit for summer!
It's time to review
351 Twisted Chain Stitch (Learn it here)
352 Battlements Stitch (Learn it here)
353 Brick and Cross Filling Stitch (Learn it here)
354 Stem Stitch with Buttonhole Loop (Learn it here)
Homework:
Make a stitch sampler with Sunbonnet Sue.
For every stitch I add to Sunday Stitch School, I learn something other than the stitch itself.
Last week, I understood why the Twisted Chain Stitch felt so familiar. In 2012 I learned it while taking part in TAST, Take A Stitch Tuesday. The stitch was #12 Barred and Alternating Barred Chain, where the 'arm' is long and sticking out like the spike in barbed wire.
This week, I discovered that when you make the Twisted Chain Stitches short and place them close together, you get another stitch - the Rope Stitch, which was also a TAST stitch, #110. Here is a link to the blogpost of May 5th 2014.
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Now for my homework.
Aida Sampler
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth
Let's start this set of five new stitches with a stitch that should have been included LONG ago - the Twisted Chain Stitch.
I was convinced that I had already worked it on my blog while doing Take A Stitch Tuesday or in the Sunday Stitch School series. It turned out that in 2012, I used it in TAST #12 Barred and Alternating Barred Stitch, as it is the first part of those stitches, but I never used it as a stitch in its own right. It is high time to rectify that!
You can find the instructions at Pintangle or the video at Needle 'n Thread.
Here is my Twisted Chain Stitch photo tutorial:
