TAST Week 13

Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 13 Basic TAST Arrow or Arrowhead Stitch is a very quick and easy stitch to work. It is versatile. You can use it for stylish projects on the one hand, and children’s stitching projects on the other.There are two varieties of Arrowhead Stitch (see the tutorial). …

TAST Week 12

Couching is a simple, but wonderfully versatile, stitch and technique. With this stitch, you can use many novelty yarns that cannot fit through the eye of a needle. Follow the link for instructions and eye candy. Couching is a quick way to add a textured line to your design. You …

Crazy quilt stitch along Tumbling Block 15

Tumbling block 15 sits fourth row down on the left hand side of the Diamonds are forever quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the block. Here is light tone diamond, the mid tone diamond, and the dark tone diamond. Please remember that the …

TAST Week 11

Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 11 Basic TAST Feather stitch is the basic stitch for week 11. For those who are new to embroidery, you will find that aspects of the hand movements needed to make this stitch are similar to those learned in Buttonhole. I hope you can see a …

TAST Week 10 and March Design Challenge

Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 10 Basic TAST Crossed buttonhole is one of those stitches that at first glance looks mildly interesting. But once you experiment with it a bit, you will discover it has many possibilities. You can also work single stitches in a square as I have done …