WIPW - Zipped Up and Stuffed

 Work In Progress Wednesday. 

Hexablooms

More flowers, 65 to be exact, have opened up on the ever-growing quilt flimsy.

 

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

It's COMPLETED!

The cushion is now assembled. The fastener is stitched in place and zipped up. The cushion is stuffed with a large pillow AND a woollen blanket that was hibernating in the closet. 

Finally, the cushion, which features the first 300 stitches from Sunday Stitch School, is now chilling out on the daybed. 

Flip it over to see the reverse side.

This is definitely a 'look, but don't touch' cushion and nothing to lean back against. All those blue sequins will prick your back for sure. 

No, you had much better study the various stitches and celebrate the loveliness of embroidery.

Birthday Card

The birthday card I showed a blown-up version of last week looks like this.

I used three pieces of machine-made lace. One, the hat, I coloured with fabric crayons. The collar and the blue bow tie are simply stitched on. 

The hair was made from a silky synthetic fibre I once bought in the UK. I wound it round a bamboo skewer and ironed it till it became a long cork screw curl. 

It was then cut into several sections and stitched on before I placed the hat on top.

The face was drawn with felt-tip pens, and the cheeks were blushed with ink from a red pencil.

It was fun and easy to make this card with materials I had in my stash.

New!

The New Sunday Stitch School Sampler

There are 330 stitches in the Sunday Stitch School collection. 300 are in the cushion as seen above.

The remaining 30, and all the future stitches I have yet to learn, need a place to live. That is why I will start a new stitch sampler on a piece of coarse cotton dyed with indigo.

Here is the blank page!

Mandala

Do you remember the Mandala project? 

It has been taking a long rest in its project box. Now, with the cushion ticked off the list, it is time to progress on this wallhanging. 

The first thing I did was to take a good look and a long think!

First on the list will be to fill in the three remaining voids with knots, and I have to check what type of knot stitches they are, as I have forgotten.

All in all, it has been a very productive week for a change.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 330: Pueblo Stitch

 Do you remember #119 Alternating Magic Split Stitch and #120 Magic Split Stitch?

Today, we will learn Pueblo Stitch, which is quite similar.

Instructions for Pueblo Stitch can be found in many places, on YouTube and at Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials as well as at Arts&Design under Pueblo Stitch.

Q: So what differs between Alternating Magic Split Stitch and Pueblo Stitch? 

A: The placement of the needle!

Compare the picture of Alternating Magic Split Stitch with the photo of Pueblo Stitch.

In Alternating Magic Split Stitch, the tip of the needle 
comes out inside the previous 'Chain Stitch'.

In Pueblo Stitch, the tip of the needle comes out in the
hole just outside the 'Chain Stitch'. 

Here is my photo tutorial.

You need two threads of different colours on the needle.

Take a Back Stitch by splitting the threads, red on the left and blue on the right. 

Pull the threads through.

Change the threads over, blue on the left and red on the right. 

Take a Back Stitch and exit in the hole at the bottom of the 'Chain Stitch'.

Alternate by changing the coloured threads over.

Continue. Anchor the last stitch.

Homework:

Try to squeeze in a line of Pueblo Stitch on your samplers. The Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth is getting fuller and fuller. Is there any space left?

Friday Homework for Lesson 329: Radiation Stitch

 Aida Sampler

The Radiation Stitch gets a different life when worked in a variegated thread!

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Imagine these clusters made with orange thread, wouldn't they look like campfires? 

So are there two stitches that can be used for flaming fires, the Fire Stitch, that we learned two weeks ago and this week's Radiation Stitch?

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

Program the needle to do 100% free-form stitching, and you get sprawly, weedy bushes!

I LOVE embroidery!

WIPW - Basting the Zipper

How can time fly so fast? It's already Wednesday,  so here is my Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Hexablooms

I have now added ten blooms to the previous yellow, orange and dark blue. The new ones are mostly dark blue, too, although many of them have prints.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

I am still preparing the transformation of the sampler into a cushion. The zipper was bought and has been basted in place. Next step is the lining...

Birthday Card

I have made another birthday card, which I will show in full later in July. Here is a blown-up detail.