Fancy Herringbone Stitch is the stitch for TAST this week. It is a fun decorative stitch to play with. It forms a strong but pretty line that makes an ideal border, or you can use it as a seam treatment in crazy quilting. You can work it in different threads. And you can lace this stitch with many novelty threads and ribbons or even novelty knitting yarns. Adding beads will give this stitch an extra zest. You will find a tutorial for Fancy Herringbone Stitch here.
Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 45 Beyond TAST
Woven Zig Zag Chain gives us the stitch for Beyond TAST. As you can see, weaving this stitch is the same technique as that used in Woven detached chain. Somewhere in the history of embroidery someone has taken this technique and applied it to Zig-Zag chain stitch. In the process, they created a wonderful stitch. You can use this stitch over ribbon or if you use it over threads it becomes Woven chained bar. It is not hard to work but does take up quite a bit of thread. It is in the choice of threads that makes this stitch come to life.
Just a quick heads up as I am being asked – Yes I will be running TAST again next year 🙂
If you are new to hand embroidery the challenge is to learn the stitch and share what you have learned. If you are an experienced embroiderer, enjoy Beyond TAST and give your work a modern twist. And of course, share it online so beginners can see what can be done with a little imagination.
If you are looking for past TAST stitch challenges the archives are in the Take a Stitch Tuesday category
Where to Share
So the idea is to stitch a sample, photograph it, share it in the Take a Stitch Tuesday facebook group, or use the hashtags #TASTembroidery and #PintangleTAST on Instagram.
If you need more information the challenge guidelines are on the TAST FAQ page.
I hope you enjoy the colour design challenge and Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 45
Thread Twisties!
Experimenting with different threads can be expensive. You would normally have to buy a whole skein of each type of thread. My thread twisties are a combination of different threads to use in creative hand embroidery. These enable you to try out stitching with something other than stranded cotton. For the price of just a few skeins, you can experiment with a bundle of threads of luscious colours and many different textures.
These are creative embroiders threads. With them, I hope to encourage you to experiment. Each Twistie is a thread bundle containing silk, cotton, rayon and wool. Threads range from extra fine (the same thickness as 1 strand of embroidery floss) to chunky couchable textured yarns. All threads have a soft and manageable drape. Twisting them around a needle makes experimental hand embroidery an interesting journey rather than a battle. Many are hand dyed by me. All are threads I use. You may find a similar thread twist but no two are identical.
You will find my thread twisties in the Pintangle shop here.
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Sandy
Hi Sandy yes I saw your order come through OK – Paypal handles all credit cards and is much more secure than small businesses like myself which is why I use it of course so you have no need to worry. Your order went out in this mornings batch so you should get a notice with a tracking number from Aussie post and get it soon. Thanks for your order.