Stitch of the Week 19: Half Chevron Stitch

Take a Stitch on Tuesday, May 14, 2013   Welcome to week 19!

This week’s stitch is Half Chevron stitch. Here is the SharonB’s Stitch Dictionary pages with instructions on how to do it.

• Half Chevron Stitch:  http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/chevron-half.html

No variations, just the possibility for lots of combinations with this one.

Here’s what SharonB wrote for TAST 2012 Week 19: Half Chevron Stitch. You can read her instructions and see inspiring examples there.

• Pintangle post – http://pintangle.com/2012/05/08/take-a-stitch-tuesday-week-19/
• Here’s some creative inspiration for this stitch from the TAST 2012 stitchers.

Please follow her procedure and put a link to your published Half Chevron Stitch and their variations pictures in the comments of the latest TAST post here. Just click the post title, and scroll down to the comment section! 

Please post the link to your Half Chevron Stitch photos in THIS comment section if you are a re-runner.

Happy Stitching!

Gail

Stitch of the Week 18: Crossed Buttonhole Stitch

Take a Stitch on Tuesday, May 7, 2013   Welcome to week 18!

(a reminder that we are on stitch 17, but the original TAST 2012 week 18)

This week’s stitch is Crossed Buttonhole stitch. Here is the SharonB’s Stitch Dictionary pages with instructions on how to do it.

• Crossed Buttonhole Stitch:  http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/button-crossed.html

There aren’t any direct variations of Crossed Buttonhole stitch, but it is part of the very large buttonhole family!

Here’s what SharonB wrote for TAST 2012 Week18*: Crossed Buttonhole Stitch. You can read her instructions and see inspiring examples there.

• Pintangle post introducing Crossed Buttonhole
• Here’s some creative inspiration for this stitch from the TAST 2012 stitchers.

Please follow her procedure and put a link to your published Crossed Buttonhole Stitch and their variations pictures in the comments of the latest TAST post here. Just click the post title, and scroll down to the comment section!

Please post the link to your Crossed Buttonhole Stitch photos in THIS comment section if you also wish to share it here.

Of course, I will be putting my TAST 2012 Re-run stitches right here on this blog, because that’s why I started it in the first place

Happy Stitching!

Gail

Stitch of the Week 17: Wheatear Stitch

Take a Stitch on Tuesday, April 30, 2013   Welcome to week 17!

This week’s stitch is Wheatear stitch. Wheat Ear. It is obvious when you see it

Here is the SharonB’s Stitch Dictionary pages with instructions on how to do it.

• Wheatear Stitch:  http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/wheatear.html NOTE: you do indeed slide the thread under both the straight stitches and the chain stitch above. It is kind of hard to tell in the photos.

There are no Wheat Ear Stitch variations. Keepin’ it simple this week!

Here’s what SharonB wrote for TAST 2012 Week 17: Wheatear Stitch. You can read her instructions and see inspiring examples there.

• Wheatear stitch TAST intro at Pintangle
• Here’s some creative inspiration for this stitch from the TAST 2012 stitchers.

Please follow her procedure and put a link to your published Wheatear Stitch and their variations pictures in the comments of the latest TAST post here. Just click the post title, and scroll down to the comment section!

Please post the link to your Wheatear Stitch photos in THIS comment section if you also wish to share it here.

Of course, I will be putting my TAST 2012 Re-run stitches right here on this blog, because that’s why I started it in the first place

Happy Stitching!

Gail

Stitch of the Week 16: French Knot

Take a Stitch on Tuesday, April 23, 2013   Welcome to week 16!

This week’s stitch is French knot. Here is the SharonB’s Stitch Dictionary pages with instructions on how to do it.

• French Knots:  http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/frenchknot.html

There are no French Knot variations listed with its instructions, but I know of the Colonial Knot. It is not used in this go-round of TAST, but here are two links to it if you are interested.

• Colonial Knot at inaminuteago.com (the website for TAST stitches’ dictionary)
• Colonial Knot at needlenthread.com

Here’s what SharonB wrote for TAST 2012 Week 16: French Knot. You can read her instructions and see inspiring examples there.

• Pintangle post for French Knots, (week 16, stitch 15) She gives two valuable tips for French Knot success at the beginning of this post!
• Here’s some creative inspiration for this stitch from the TAST 2012 stitchers.

Please follow her procedure and put a link to your published French Knot and their variations pictures in the comments of the latest TAST post here. Just click the post title, and scroll down to the comment section!

Please post the link to your French Knot photos in THIS comment section if you also wish to share it here. It doesn’t matter when you get it done. If you list it here, no matter how far in the future from this post, I will bring it some attention in a Monday recap post.

Of course, I will be putting my TAST 2012 Re-run stitches right here on this blog, because that’s why I started it in the first place

Happy Stitching!

Gail

Stitch of the Week 15: Stem Stitch

Take a Stitch on Tuesday, April 16, 2013   Welcome to week 15! (Sort of… remember we are using week numbers to match the original 2012 TAST, and they’ve taken a week off. This is STITCH # 14)

This week’s stitch is Stem stitch. Here is the SharonB’s Stitch Dictionary pages with instructions on how to do it.

• Stem Stitch:  http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/stem.html
  

There is only one Stem Stitch variation, but we won’t see Outline Stitch in this TAST Challenge. I think it is a good week to once and for all figure out the difference, and SEE the difference between stem and outline! It all has to do with the twist of the thread. Try them both and see for yourself. Maybe its just me that can’t ever remember the names right

• Whipped Stem Stitch
• Outline Stitch

Here’s what SharonB wrote for TAST 2012 Week 15: Stem Stitch. You can read her instructions and see inspiring examples there.

• Pintangle post for Stem Stitch
• Here’s some creative inspiration for this stitch from the TAST 2012 stitchers.

Please follow her procedure and put a link to your published Stem Stitch and their variations pictures in the comments of the latest TAST post here. Just click the post title, and scroll down to the comment section!

Please post the link to your Stem Stitch photos in THIS comment section if you also wish to share it here with any of us re-runners!

Of course, I will be putting my TAST 2012 Re-run stitches right here on this blog, because that’s why I started it in the first place

Happy Stitching!

Gail

My Couching Sample

I put this off for a while, knowing I wanted to use the beautiful cotton fibers I was given, but a little intimidated. I worked up my courage and finally got it done!

A friend/workmate of my daughter who lives in Arizona grew some cotton for a program, and  lucky, lucky me, I was given a whole shopping bag full!!! It has been ginned, but below you can see at least one little cotton seed hung on tight and made it through! I like that.

The fibers are silky and long — it must be a pima-type of southwest USA cotton fame. I was told, but I have forgotten. I started adding in the cotton near the end: some finger-made strands I found in the top of the bag, and a tiny clump I played with first.

I couched using DMC flosses in increasingly brilliant pinks and oranges, and couched down some old crewel yarns I had leftover from probably these basket of flowers and apple kits I did when I was about 12.

I couched those yarn ends (they were hard to break/shred!) down to the very last fibers

The background is a polyester special occasion fabric I picked up a remnant of, just for my CQ basket. It is a changeable olive/antique gold.

I look forward to doing some more formal couching on CQ blocks, but this has definitely shown me how much fun I could have using couching in my doodle stitching, too!

Happy Stitching!

Gail

Stitch of the Week 13/14: Satin Stitch

Take a Stitch on Tuesday, April 9, 2013   Welcome to week 13 of my TAST 2012 Re-run!

As a note of interest, the 2012 stitchers took a break on week 13, so we are now following them with STITCH 13 but WEEK 14. I have decided to keep up with their week numbers just so visiting the Pintangle.com posts, with their Week # titles, won’t be so alarming

That means this week, we are stitching the 13th stitch, but following the TAST 2012 14th week. Onward we go!

This week’s stitch is Satin stitch. Here is the SharonB’s Stitch Dictionary pages with instructions on how to do it.

• Satin Stitch:  http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/Chain.html
• SharonB also refers us to Needle ‘n Thread’s Satin Stitch instruction.

Here are the Satin stitch variations.  (For your convenience, listed here to open in a new window)

• Straight Stitch, aka Single Satin Stitch
• Padded Satin Stitch

Here’s what SharonB wrote for TAST 2012  Satin Stitch. You can read her instructions and see inspiring examples there.

• Pintangle post for TAST 2012 week 14
• Highlights for Satin Stitch from the 2012 TAST stitchers

Please follow her procedure and put a link to your published Satin Stitch and their variations pictures in the comments of the latest TAST post here. Just click the post title, and scroll down to the comment section!

Please post the link to your Satin Stitch photos in THIS comment section if you also wish to share it here.

Of course, I will be putting my TAST 2012 Re-run stitches right here on this blog, because that’s why I started it in the first place

Happy Stitching!

Gail