Friday Homework for Lesson 300: Ring Picot

 Charming and beautiful, the Ring Picot is a beautiful version of Buttonhole Stitch. Please try it!

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

WIPW - Preparing the Finish

Here we are again, it's Wednesday and time for a Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Mandala

I added a ring of silk-covered plastic cups around the sequin waste disc. Embroidery will be the next step.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

This sampler contains 299 stitches. Next week I plan to add #300 Ring Picot and it will be the last stitch.

This is what the sampler looks like right now.

After this, it is time to prepare a finish for this wallhanging.

I know the stitching is a bit dense in some areas and too spread out in others. To make it easier to see exactly where, I changed the photo to a black and white setting and circled the areas where more stitches will need to be added.

I will find a place for #300 Ring Picot, and add more of the same stitches already in the area.

For example, there will be more of #298 Hatamusubi and #233 Whipped Fly Stitch Wheel (seen in the blue areas) inside the red areas.

Hexablooms

Another set of 10 flowers now brings the total to 90.

Sunday Stitch School: Lesson 300 - Ring Picot

In 2013, while I took part in TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday), Sharon Boggon introduced us to two versions of the Buttonhole Picot. You can see her instructions here. 

This link will show you the blog post I wrote about it, TAST #88

For today I want to introduce you to the Ring (Buttonhole) Picot as found on Arts&Design.

It is also featured in Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches.

In the instructions mentioned above, the work is done right to left. I prefer to do my Buttonholes the other way around, so please note that in MY tutorial the stitch direction is left to right.

Here is my photo tutorial:

I made six Buttonhole Stitches,

I went back three stitches, slipped the needle

between stitches number three and four,

underneath the thread ONLY, from down to up.

I tightened this loose loop and underneath it, 

without biting any fabric, I made five detached 

Buttonhole Stitches from left to right.

From here I repeated the process.

Finally, I anchored the thread after three stitches

(to have even numbers of stitches at the beginning 

and end of the line).

This stitch is often used as an edging stitch.

Homework:

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Friday Homework for Lesson 299: Backstitched Trellis

Well, if you look at the date, you can see that this ought to be SATURDAY homework for lesson 299. The work was completed just before midnight but I had neither time nor energy to write up the post, thus the delay. Sorry!

Aida Sampler

The grid I made was very narrow, but it looks neat and tidy.

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

As this fabric has no grid, I drew the crosshatch pattern and stitched on top of the lines.

I quite like the trellis in two colours - it adds depth.

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

I knew this fabric was nearly impossible to mark. That is why I used waste canvas. However, the fabric is so knobbly that when the stitches are as short as these are, the whole grid looks wonky and uneven.

During work, I checked carefully that I had inserted the needle in the right hole, yet it looks as if I have made several mistakes. Sigh!

Back Stitch seen on the top of the work is one single stitch after another. On the back, however, you have what looks like Stem Stitch - the threads are double. This means that a narrow grid like this would be very hardwearing and suitable for Canvas Work on upholstery.