Friday Revision Homework - Stitches 136 - 140

Here is Sunbonnet Sue practicing social distancing. She is chilling out in the Waved Chain Stitch waters of an isolated lake in the middle of nowhere. On the shore Sycamore Stitch plants are growing. Waved Chain Stitch butterflies are fluttering around her and the Tied Windmill Stitch sun is giving her skin a bit of a tan.
Sue has dressed up in her Indian Herringbone Stitch sundress and her Brick Stitch sunbonnet.

Stem Stitch was also used for outlines.

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 136 - 140

It is time for a revision lesson to look at the last five stitches.
Click on the title to see instructions and previous posts for each stitch.

136 Tied Windmill Stitch
This is a beautiful stitch and can be made into different shapes.
Change the spacing, the length of the arms, the placement of the cross, the thread colour, weight and type, and the sky's the limit, as they say.

 137 Brick Stitch
For an even look use a weave with a good grid.


138 Waved Chain Stitch
So easy, so impressive. This is a stitch well worth learning!


139 Sycamore Stitch
A Lego stitch, use it to build various motifs.


140 Indian Herringbone Stitch
This makes such an attractive woven look, perfect for the image of checked tweed etc.



Homework:
It is time for another Sunbonnet Sue sampler.
This time I made use of my molding pads, and fabric crayons to make part of the scene.

Friday Homework for Lesson 138: Waved Chain Stitch

Oh, I LOVE this stitch! It's surprisingly easy and looks much more complicated than it is.

Aida Sampler

Teal Wool Tailoring Scribble Cloth
In Sharon Boggon's excellent book, The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design, she suggests using two mirrored stitches to make a butterfly.

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 138: Waved Chain Stitch

I search high and low for new stitches to add to the Sunday Stitch School. However, sometimes I find the best stitches where it all began, at Pintangle. Sharon Boggon has built up a fantastic collection of stitches in her Stitch Dictionary. 

Many of them are included in her TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday) online stitch tutorial, which was where I started learning new and unusual stitches.Today's stitch, Waved Chain Stitch, however, only appeared as a TAST stitch in 2010, (as far as I know). This was before I joined the tutorial, so I missed this charming stitch.  Basically it is a variation, extension rather, of Shell Chain Stitch. 

Waved Chain Stitch is surprisingly easy and leaves an attractive zig-zag line.

Originally the stitch comes from one of Edith John's books.

Instructions:
Make a straight Chain Stitch.

Make a second Chain Stitch.

Insert the needle in the same hole

as the first stitch, but come out

slightly below and to the right of 

the first Chain.

Make a third Chain Stitch,

in the same way, below and to the 

right.

You now have three Chain Stitches

each one gradually larger than the 

previous one.

Start the next set of three 

Chain stitches with a small 

vertical straight Chain Stitch.

Make the second stitch slightly

below, but to the left.

and then the third one...

Continue zig-zagging in the same way
until you have as many as you like.

Aren't they attractive?! Imagine this in metallic thread - you'd have a lovely chain for a necklace.

For anyone who compares the Waved Chain Stitch in the stitch dictionary on Pintangle and my version will notice that I have made a slight change - I use the same starting hole for all the three stitches. This results in a 'rougher sea', my waves are higher, the zig-zag line is more obvious.

Homework:

Don't get seasick as you stir up some waves on these samplers: