Friday Homework for Lesson 35: Outline Stitch

This week it was fun to do the homework!

The Outline Stitch mirrors the Stem Stitch and both (usually) make a nice and neat line - IF the right thread is used for the right stitch.

This is stitched in Z-twisted Japanese silk.

Whereas this is stitched in Coton a Broder, an S-twisted thread.

You can see how nice the Outline Stitch is for a Z twist, and how the S-twisted thread slightly untwists itself.


I made use of these two excellent crazy quilting templates by Sharon Boggon for designing.

WIPW - 64 days

At last I have some proper progress to show on Work In Progress Wednesday.

The quilting on
Trinity Green
is complete!
It took me 64 days to finish the in-the-ditch straight-line walking and the swirly snails.

At times the machine quilting was very frustrating. The walking foot climbed out of the ditch and onto the curb, the snails slid hither and thither, tangled up in each other and left a trail of loose thread ends to fasten. Well, I have to be grateful it wasn't a slimy trail, I guess!

Fastening those loose threads, cutting the edges of the quilt and preparing the binding are three jobs I also have completed.

So let's hope next week I can show the final WIPW report of this L E N G T H Y project, when the quilt is finally finished.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 35: Outline Stitch

It's Sunday and time for another lesson at Sunday Stitch School.

In geography, there are a lot of lines, latitude, longitude, the Equator, the Date Line, and so on. We will devote this lesson to a line that has become a stitch, the Outline Stitch.

Can you spot the difference?

Of course you can!
The picture at the top is the Stem Stitch, where the thread is hanging downwards,
and the picture underneath is the Outline Stitch. You see how the thread is kept above the stitching line.

Mary Corbet has written a good article about the Stem Stitch vs the Outline Stitch and how an S- and a Z-twisted thread look when used for these two stitches.

Swedish name: Vänstersytt Stjälkstygn
French name: Point de Tige Contrarié

Homework:
Read the article and then create something freely using either Cotton a Broder (S-twisted)

  and/or Japanese silk (Z-twisted).

On my Aida sampler:

Friday Homework for Lesson 34: Japanese Stitch

Late again, but I have worked hard!

Here is my homework for stitch #34 Japanese Stitch.

First as a canvas stitch

Which was easy to stitch and makes a nice filling.

The Japanese embroidery with flat silk floss on kimono silk was harder to work.

The stitch could just as well be ordinary Satin Stitch, I guess.

After having done the Japanese Stitch I added Stem Stitch - for the stems.

Then I added some Chinese Knot Stitches in purple and blue,
threw in a few silver lines made of Japanese Stitch,
and a sprinkle of Chinese Cross Stitches in gold.

This will eventually become a greeting card.

Nihon Shishu, Japanese embroidery, is more difficult than I thought. I will have to try again!