For Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 33, I am introducing a textured stitch called Whipped wheel. This stitch produces a raised ribbed circle. Until you try it you don’t know how much fun this stitch can be. This is one of my favourite textured stitches. If you look closely at …
For Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 32, I would like to introduce you to Raised Herringbone Band. This is an interesting stitch, but for some reason, I find I forget to use it! But this stitch is really remarkably handy once you learn it. This stitch makes a great decorative …
Tumbling block 20 sits in the middle on the bottom row of the Diamonds are Forever quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the block. Here is the light tone diamond, the mid tone diamond, and the dark tone diamond. Just to remind you …
For Take a Stitch Tuesday 2023 Week 31, I am introducing everyone to 3 varieties of Chain Stitch that can be used whenever you want a really strong line. I hope they all prove to be fun. For TAST, I am suggesting two varieties of Whipped Chain stitch. Both varieties …
The Basic stitch in Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 30 is Pekinese Stitch which creates an interesting line that can follow a curve well. As a linear stitch Pekinese Stitch is quick to work if you need to edge a larger item such as the page of a fabric book. …
Cloud Filling is the stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday 2023 Week 29. Because this stitch covers areas quickly and easily, you mainly see this stitch being used as a filler stitch. If you are a new hand to embroidery, you will find that filler stitches are amazingly useful. They …
For Basic Take a Stitch Tuesday this week I am pointing everyone towards a variety of Herringbone stitch called Back Stitched Herringbone. This stitch combines back stitch and Herringbone stitch. It is a lot of fun and is very versatile looking good if you work it row upon row or …
