2024 seems to be a busy year and I have not been able to make much progress on my various projects.
Anyway, here it is, my Work In Progress Wednesday report.
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler
I made five arches with the #122 Needle Weaving Bar.
Once on YouTube I saw a beautiful stitch, but the speed of the video was too fast for me to grasp the movements.
There was no name but the stitch looked very familiar, both in the end result and in the way it was executed. I checked my stitch collection and racked my brain, then forgot all about it.
It was not until recently that I found the stitch on Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials. It was the classic Palestrina Stitch, worked in reverse. I checked in Sharon Boggon's 'Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery' for the Palestrina Stitch, as she offers photo instructions for both right- and left-hand stitchers. Here was the Palestrina Stitch flipped over.
So you work today's version of Palestrina from right to left like this:
The procedure when making the Open Back stitch is exactly the same as for Hoshidome Stitch, apart from the length of each individual stitch. The former is longer, like the basic Running Stitch, whereas the latter is just a small dot. Compare:
Hoshidome Stitch
Aida Sampler
The pro is that it is far sturdier than the Running Stitch, the con, that is uses up a lot of thread.
I had no progress to report last Wednesday for the usual WIPW report. After a week's inactivity I today have four stitches on the:
Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler
#93 Rya Stitch (the untidy one in purple), #165 Lazy Daisy Popcorn Stitch (light pink and wine red ), #185 Ototomi (light pink ovals), #277 Open Back Stitch (purple, wine red, mint green).
