Friday Homework for Lesson 333: Damask Darning Stitch

 This stitch is a real teaser! It looks so simple and straightforward, but unless you have a good and even grid, you are snared in a trap!

It was easy and enjoyable to do the Aida Sampler, but the Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart and Mottle Wool Scribble Cloth almost drove me crazy. Although I used waste canvas and a gridded tracing paper to stitch through,  the work was confusing and the result disappointing. Finally, I managed to get some decent freehand results on the Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth.

I will not use this stitch again unless it is on canvas or Aida.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

WIPW - Getting On

As you can see from this Work In Progress Wednesday report, I have been getting on with the usual work. Additionally, I promised to share the work I completed on World Embroidery Day last week, which you can see below.

Hexablooms

I added more flower blocks and the flimsy now holds 86 flowers.

Mandala

I dug into my box of braids and ribbons and fished out this line of flat flowers. I will use them on the Mandala, somehow...

Baby Quilt

The machine quilting is now underway. Here is a picture of the reverse side.

Sunday Stitch School Indigo Sampler  on  World Embroidery Day

These are the three stitches I added last week:

#307 Rhodes Diamond (light coral),  #308 Crossed Cretan (red) and #309 Chessboard Filling Stitch (light blue and teal)

Birthday Card

I had this stumpwork portrait in a box and decided to mount it onto a piece of card and insert it into a window card.

Here is a picture of a detail. I will show the clear portrait once the birthday 'gal' has celebrated her day.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 333: Damask Darning Stitch

Here is another stitch based on Straight Stitch. It is a canvas stitch and goes under the name of Damask Darning Stitch.

It is included in Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, i.e. there is an illustration of the finished result, but not the stitch order. To see how it is stitched, I suggest you check out this video from fireandirisneedlepoint:

Or follow my photo tutorial.

Homework: Add here

 

Friday Homework for Lesson 332: Irregular Algerian Eylet Star Stitch

 This is such a sunny stitch; it makes me happy to look at it.

Aida Sampler

One warm and one cold!

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

It is too hard to mark this fabric - I eyeballed the stitches.