Welcome to Take a Stitch Tuesday 2023, Week 25! The Stitch for TAST week 25, is to experiment with Sheaf Stitch. You often see Sheaf Stitch used as a light, filling stitch, with single stitches spaced evenly over an area. But people often underestimate it, as it is far more …
Finding fresh colour combinations and working out colour schemes can sometimes be a challenge. There are many tools online that can make it fun or simply offer you a fresh look. Using a colour palette generator can also be fun, particularly when you start to play with some of your …
This week is not only fun, it is also an easy week for both the TAST and the Beyond TAST streams. I hope everyone has fun! Fern Stitch is a very quick and easy stitch to work. So for those who need some catch-up time, just jump in and do …
Many people ask how to assemble a crazy quilt. This is how I assembled the Diamonds are forever crazy quilt. It is basically how I assemble any large crazy quilt. In this case the blocks are diamond shaped but if my blocks were square it would be the same process. …
This is TAST Break Week 2 in other words a catch-up week. If you are up to date with your homework, take a little break. I don’t know a stitcher who has not got other projects to work on – so this is your chance. For those of you who …
Tumbling block 6 sits in the middle of the top section of the ‘Diamonds are Forever’ quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up tumbling block 6. Here is light tone diamond 1. The mid tone diamond 2 , and the dark tone diamond 3 …
I have a new stitch to TAST this week . It is Interlaced Band which is worked between two lines of Back stitch. This stitch is great to use novelty yarns and thicker threads. My main tip for this stitch and any stitch where you are lacing or threading a thread …
