Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 270: Spaced Buttonhole Filling Stitch

 This version of the Buttonhole Stitch was found in  Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches.

You can work it fixed to the foundation fabric or detached. Today we will work the former.

In the first row, work from left to right.

Make two Buttonhole Stitches next to each other,

Make enough space to evenly place two stitches in the row below.

Make two more stitches.

Continue this way to the end of the row.

Anchor the last stitch

Work a similar row below the first one, but 

work from right to left.

Anchor the last stitch.

The closer you place the stitches, the more 

of the foundation fabric will be filled.

Spaced Buttonhole Filling Stitch is easy and fast. Enjoy it!

 

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 247: Scallop Blanket Stitch

This beautiful line of scallops was found on YouTube, posted by Maariyah Creative Arts and can be seen here:

Unlike the Blanket and Buttonhole stitches I usually do, this is worked 'upside down' and stitched away from the stitcher as you will see in the video.

There is, however, a tutorial in A-Z of Embroidery Stitches 2, called 'Blanket Stitch - Scallop Edging' where the stitches are worked in the traditional way, but along an edge.

Following, is my photo tutorial for Scallop Blanket Stitch.

Make one detached Buttonhole Stitch.

Make two more.

Then make another Buttonhole Stitch, biting the fabric.

Continue with another set of three detached stitches.

Anchor at the end of the line.

 I made a line of blue stitches which are spaced further apart than the red ones.

In the picture below, you can compare these with two other versions. 

The green stitches are #27 Buttonholed Buttonhole Stitch. The yellow stitches have not been introduced in  Sunday Stitch School yet, nor have I been able to find this variation of Buttonhole Stitch in ANY of my stitch dictionaries! Whipped Buttonhole is quite commonly listed, and there are plenty of Buttonholed bars, wheels and chain stitches, but not a single Buttonholed Stitch where the bottom line has been decorated with (detached) Buttonhole Stitch. I will have to include this in Sunday Stitch School's collection of stitches. Furthermore, I will have to think up a name as I have already used 'Buttonholed Buttonhole' for the green one where each other LEG is buttonholed. Should the yellow version be called Buttonhole FOOT Stitch, ha, ha? What do you think?

Homework: Add to these samplers

Friday Homework for Lesson 270: Spaced Buttonhole Filling Stitch

 It was nice to use this classic stitch in a new way - for me, anyway.

Aida Sampler

It was SO easy to do the Spaced Buttonhole Filling Stitch on Aida!

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

I managed to do these stitches free-hand with the help of a few lines of water-soluble pen.

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

I did this 100 % free-hand, and as you can see the stitches are a bit (charmingly) wobbly!

Friday Homework for Lesson 11: Knotted Satin Stitch

Time to hand in the homework for this week's stitch - the Knotted Satin Stitch.
It looked so innocently easy and simple, but I found it was a willful stitch, behaving well until it suddenly started misbehaving. The 'knot' is not a proper knot, but a loop, and frets along the straight stitch it is looped around. It will not sit still! I renamed it the Naughty Knotted Satan Stitch!

When I introduced the stitch on my blog last Sunday I had worked the sampler on Aida and THAT was my first mistake; the holes in Aida are spaced wide apart. For this stitch you need a much tighter woven fabric.
My second mistake was that while working I forgot that this is not a variation of Buttonhole stitch, but a Satin stitch that needs to be crowded and stitched tightly so it is kept in check. Look at the sloppy orange heart. Aren't those horrible Buttonhole stitches worked backwards?!

After a number of false starts I got a better result. By keeping the stitches this crowded, each one supports the next one. The 'knot' is hidden underneath and pads the edge of the Satin stitches, just like it should do.

Just for fun I worked one set of widely spaced stitches over another to create the two coloured half wheels. These stitches had even more 'ants in their pants' and did not sit still, not until I tied them down with the red edges.
On these red edges and the red stem the stitches are so short they create a cord like line as the knot underneath lifts the whole stitch.

Annet, who has a wealth of stitch knowledge, pointed out that Knotted Satin Stitch is Rope Stitch worked at a different angle. She is right of course, and while working I realized it is also a cousin of Coral stitch, which is why I made the two red bows with Coral stitch.

(This flower is to be made into a greeting card, and I took the liberty to add some other stitches, too, Stem, Lattice, and French Knots.)

Finally I just had to see if naughty stitches can behave better when the environment (the fabric) and their character (the thread) change:

I used a piece of slightly fuzzy cotton and experimented with yellow floss (three strands), pink Pearl and light blue wool thread. I stitched the Knotted Satin Stitch, the Rope Stitch and the Coral Stitch,

and they were not only obedient and compliant, but refined and polished.

The Naughty Knotted Satan Stitch became the Silky Knotted Satin Stitch of whom I am happy to have met.

WIPW - Full Circle

Work In Progress Wednesday.

Mandala

I have come full circle with the Boucle Stitch edge. I let my feet show in the picture so the size of the Mandala can be seen.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

I added two stitches, #270 Spaced Buttonhole Filling Stitch and #271 Hoshidome Stitch (the small white dots).

Sunday Stitch School - Revision: Stitches 266 - 270

Here is a summary of the latest group of five stitches. Click on the title to see the instructions.

266 Laced Back Stitch

It is so nice to add something to a basic stitch! This is an easy addition.

267 Plaited Stitch

This stitch was easier to do than I first thought. It looks especially good when worked in contrasting colours or types of thread.

268 Donut Drizzle Stitch

It's a beautiful stitch, but a bit tricky to give it a perfect shape. It's delicious, though!

269 Queen Stitch

Easily made on Aida, you will get this even result.

270 Spaced Buttonhole Filling Stitch

This is another basic stitch that looks upgraded simply because of a small adjustment, in this case, the spacing.

Homework: Let Sunbonnet Sue illustrate the five stitches.

I have a busy week ahead of me and won't be able to complete this homework, nor the WIP report, by next week. The last block on the Green Man Quilt will also be lurking in the shadows for a while more. See you in a fortnight.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 251: Frilled Buttonhole Stitch

From the blog 'Let's Learn Embroidery' I picked up today's stitch: Frilled Buttonhole Stitch. Check it out here.

Or follow my simple photo instruction:

On the back, you can see how I have spaced

the stitches to get a gentle curve.

Turn the work upside down and 

stitch away from you. Don't bite 

the fabric.

Two Buttonhole stitches for each

loop.

Anchor.

This will make a nice petal. If you want to make a flower, make four or five petals in a circle.

Homework:

Add here

WIPW - turning into UFOs

Work In Progress Wednesday is a challenge initiated by Sharon of Pintangle. The title says it all - you show your progress of (needle)work on a Wednesday. To learn more click here.


Kafferepet

Thank you for all your comments on the iced Raspberry cordial I showed last week. Tokyo is still too cold for such a drink so let me treat you to a cinnamon roll instead.

Serving dishes in pressed glass and with a foot like the one in this block are very popular in Sweden, and especially if the sweet buns are piled high.

To reflect the pattern of the 'pressed glass' I used TAST #69 Buttonholed Double Chain for the quilting.

Swedish Cushion
I have now moved into the second half of the cushion and started by making a large circle of a recent TAST stitch, #101 Triangular Buttonhole Stitch. Large triangles mean long stitches that would invite snagging. I therefore made them smaller and spaced them with #14 Stem Stitch in between, and will work a second line of triangles, as marked, with another stitch.

That progress will not be shown next week Wednesday, however. Instead I will turn my two WIPW projects into UFOs! I am going to take a break for a couple of weeks, and while away will not have online access (!!!) so I am not able to reply to any comments or visit other blogs. Sorry! Hope to catch up before the end of the month.

TASTy Tuesday - Second Helpings 71 - 77

The colours I had chosen for last week were not tempting, and my schedule was full of other things than embroidery. I just had to skip the Second Helpings last week.

Now back in full swing:

From the top:
71) Bullion Buttonhole Stitch
72) Wrapped Coral Stitch
73) Portuguese Stem Stitch
74) Zig-Zag Chain Stitch
75) Woven Zig-Zag Chain Stitch
76) Vandyke Stitch (spaced in two ways)
77) Woven Cross Stitch
I feel very proud that I had remembered the instructions, although some names had slipped my mind.

Friday Homework for Lesson 92: Parma Stitch

Oh, here I got double pleasure, both Chain Stitch and Buttonhole Stitch are among my favorites.

 Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Working Parma Stitch on a curve is supposed to be a challenge. I didn't find it so, but spaced the links in the Chain so the stitches in the inner curve are slightly shorter than those on the outside edge of the curve.

Teal Wool Tailoring Scribble Cloth