WIPW - Lazy Daisy, Busy Lizzy

I have been Lazy Daisy and Busy Lizzy, so uneven progress to report on Work In Progress Wednesday.

Trinity Green
I have stitched 128 pieces, and the total number of triangles is now 5.238.

Fabric in Focus

Does this turquoise/purple count as 'green'? Well, I had a small piece, just enough to make four triangles and added them to Trinity Green. The fabric was the sample scrap (for testing washing or darning) that came together with some spare buttons in a small plastic bag with a blouse I once owned. It was a Kansai Yamamoto designed blouse. His avant-garde fashion is sparkling with energy and colour. The blouse is no more in my possesion, but the fond memory remains.


Birthday Gifts
Last week I teased you with some blurred photos.

One of them is of this birthday gift table cloth I made to go with a vase.

The motif on the vase was copied and worked in DMC Metallic thread. The edge is a commercial braid in metallic thread.

During the weekend I made a tote bag, also a birthday gift.

The coffee cup is paper pieced and the cord is a kumihimo braid.

TASTy Tuesday Second Helpings 129 - 134

I have now reapeated almost all the 140 TAST stitches.

 Of the twelve remaining, here are six beautiful ones:

129) Lock Stitch (when I learned these a long time ago, I struggled, now I had no problem)
130) Double Lock Stitch
131) Beaded Lock Stitch

132) Kikos Flower Stitch (petals) (I am still having difficulty with these, they will NOT be even!)
133) Triple Chain Stitch
134) Fern Stitch (a favourite, so soothing and meditative to work)

WIPW -Blurred Out

Most of the Work In Progress Wednesday items this week have been blurred out, they have not yet reached their recipients so I won't show them off.

Trinity Green

has been put on the shelf and only 7 (seven!) triangles added. 

The total number is now 5.110 triangles.

No Fabric is in Focus this week

Three items were stitched, packed and shipped out:

Based on this,

I stitched this:

I also made

and

As you can see it has been a blurred BLUE week.

TASTy Tuesday Second Helpings 123 - 128

123) Woven Chained Bar 

124) Closed Herringbone Stitch (or should this be even closer with the same hole for both the exit and entry stitches? What do you think?)

125) Beaded Herringbone Stitch

126) Alternating Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch
127) Beaded Alternating Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch
128) Interlaced Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch