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 …
Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 9 Basic TAST The challenge this week, is to experiment with Buttonhole Wheel which is a fun and easy stitch. I often use these to form small floral sprays making them useful stitches for crazy quilting and surface embroidery, but you can also use them …
Take a Stitch Tuesday 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 according …
Tumbling block 14 sits third row down on the right hand side of the Diamonds are forever quilt. This month we will make four diamonds as there is a dark diamond sitting on the right that is a continuation of the tumbling block pattern. In other words we are making …
Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 7 Basic TAST This week’s 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 will …
This is a quick heads up to let people know that we have new Thread twisties in the shop. If you are into creative embroidery or crazy quilting these are a lot of fun as you get to play with a bundle of threads of luscious colours and many different …
The stitch for Basic TAST week 6 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 …
