Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 104: Fly Stitch Filling

By placing a row of Fly Stitch next to each other, then mirroring them on the row below, you get a very pleasing filling stitch.

Updated:
Mattia tells me the French names are: point de plume or point de mouche de remplissage

Use the same holes.

Use the same holes.

Nice finish!

Homework:
As the Fly Stitch Filling is great on even weave, work it on the
Canvas Sampler,
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart,
Aida Sampler

Friday Homework for Lesson 103: Triple Palestrina Stitch

This is a quick stitch. Use a thread with a good twist, like Perle, for the best result.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

New Teal Wool Tailoring Scribble Cloth

WIPW - Baby 'Rubik's Cube'

Work In progress Wednesday, well one piece is no longer in progress, it is completed - the

Baby Blocks,
or should I say Baby 'Rubik's Cube'.

This soft toy is made up of 4cm cubes of foam rubber, covered with fabric.
A cube means there are 6 sides, and each side has one piece of the six fabric prints used.
The cubes are stitched together so they have 'hinges' and you can turn and fold the cubes until all eight cubes show the same fabric.

 Polka dots turn into stripes

 stripes become flowers

 flowers attract cats

 Turn the polka dots the other way and you see the hedgehogs and mushrooms

 or in another way, the berries

This toy is fun for children of all ages, even those over 70.

Crazy for Crazy

The pieces have been stitched down and the first embroidery added.

Vaxholmskudden

I worked on the centre piece of polka dot appliqué.

The six rounds are plastic cupped discs that I covered with fabric, appliquéd and couched with red wool.

I couched down some straight lines of Perle and worked an edge of Buttonhole Stitch around the circle.

Some swirls were drawn in with charcoal pen. These lines are the next to be stitched.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 103: Triple Palestrina Stitch

Like last week, we are today looking at a variation of a well-known stitch, Palestrina Stitch. Back in 2012 I took part in TAST, hosted by Sharon Boggon of Pintangle, and used the Palestrina Stitch for this design. Very fancy, don't you think?

I found today's version on Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials, an excellent source of embroidery stitches. As there are three knots on this version the stitch is called Triple Palestrina Stitch.
Updated: In French it is called Triple Point de Palestrina, says Mattia.

It is easy and fun, do give it a try for a truly knobbly stitch line.

First:

The second knot:

The third knot:

Then repeat.

Homework:
Nothing as fancy as 2012, just add stitches to the
Aida Sampler
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
and
New Teal Wool Tailoring Scribble Cloth