Take a Stitch Tuesday 2023 Week 9 Basic TAST The challenge this week, is to experiment with Buttonhole Wheel which is a fun and easy stitch. These are often used to form small floral sprays making them useful stitches for crazy quilting and surface embroidery, but you can also use …
Take a Stitch Tuesday 2023 Week 8 Basic TAST This week the challenge is Buttonhole stitch – or blanket stitch, as many people call it. This stitch is actually the foundation for a whole family of stitches. People classify embroidery stitches in different ways. I like to classify stitch families …
Take a Stitch Tuesday 2023 Week 7 Basic TAST This weeks basic stitch is very simple and very useful. I am encouraging people to learn and use Seed stitch also known as seed filling. It is very quick and easy and ideal to incorporate in modern embroidery. I think people …
The Second tumbling block in my block of the month is to be found in the top left hand corner in the top row of my Diamonds are Forever Crazy quilt. I have included a photo of the quilt so people get a sense of where they are headed. The …
The stitch for Basic TAST this week is Fly Stitch. I made the sample above using 5 layers of chiffon and netting stitched over with mainly Fly Stitch. Much of the grass/reeds areas are also fly stitch. By mixing the thickness and type of threads I gave it more visual …
