Friday Homework for Lesson 136: Tied Windmill Stitch

This is an easy and neat stitch. Use two different threads or vary the length of the stitches for a nice look.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Teal Wool Tailoring Scribble Cloth

Canvas Sampler

WIPW - The Hot Wax Treatment

WIPW, as usual, shows progress in three projects.

Freeform Embroidery
Today we have: Triple Palestrina, Thorn and Bosnian Stitch.

Crazy for Crazy
The pieces have been stitched, so here is the naked block.

Of the embellishments selected were these small flowers,

but the colour was wrong, so what did I do? I filled in the buds with purple crayon and set the soybean wax with a hot iron.
Next job will be to put on the support fabric, so the block can be placed in a hoop and ready for fancy stitching and embellishing.

Log Cabin Challenge
Knotted Cretan, Cable Chain, Basque, Closed Herringbone, Barb and Alternating Double Chain.
These are all stitches from the TAST selection.

These six stitches have been added to the seams indicated with yellow lines.

A further 10 new blocks were stitched. Total number is now 100 blocks. Of those, 25 are in the cushion flimsy above, which means I have 75 for the quilt.
I will be making blocks until there are no strips of fabric left, and the size of the quilt/wallhanging is still unknown. This project will go on for a long time. It must be boring for you to see, but I love stitching the Log Cabins while listening to the news or some music.

Wow! I have been using the green Christmas fabric in the outer pieces on a lot of these blocks!

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 136: Tied Windmill Stitch

Hello, and welcome to yet another set of five stitches here at Sunday Stitch School. The first one, #136, is a canvas stitch called Tied Windmill Stitch. I found it on this beautiful sampler of Carole's at A Slight Obsession with Books.

Work it like this:

Make a cross out of three vertical, 

and three horisontal straight

stitches.

Then make an X-cross to tie
the six straight stitches
together.

You can also make the rays with
different length of stitches, which
I think is very attractive.

Also, why not make the X-cross with a different colour, or thread?

Homework:

Add to these three samplers, and if there is time to the canvas sampler.

Friday Revision Homework - Stitches 131 - 135

Here is my homework for the five latest stitches learned at Sunday Stitch School, summarised in a Sunbonnet Sue sampler.

What do you associate with the month of June? Rain (rainy season in Japan)? Summer break starts (Swedish schools)? Midsummer festival? Masses of wild flowers? Or June brides?

Well, Sue wanted to be a June bride. She made her dress and veil, she took her bath and picked her flowers (read here about these traditions), and here she is... waiting... but where is Overall Sam?

So what happened? Did she get married? If so, whom did she wed? Did they live happily ever after? Or did she change her mind and run away? Or was she left at the altar? What do you think?

The outline of her dress is in Stem Stitch and the shoes in Satin Stitch.