Take a Stitch Tuesday

I didn't join the challenge at http://pintangle.com this year but hadn't heard of this stitch and needed to add it to my sampler. It's the Triangular Feather Stitch-a cool looking one. It worked better in the finer threads than the blue knitting worsted.

Today we are married 48 years! When did that happen? I'm not old enough. It's been a good trip.

Take a Stitch Tuesday

Next Stitch= Knotted Buttonhole. I found it on one of my samplers. It's on the left just above the one that is a mirror image created by two rows of buttonhole stitch. It's done in Perle Cotton

Then I found more on some Crazy Quilt blocks. Here it is the pink next to the lady. It's also done in Perle Cotton.

This one is the variegated orange to white in Perle Cotton. Do you think Perle Cotton might be my favorite thread?

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http://pintangle.com is the site for the Stitch Challenge.Here is the Drizzle Stitch-very organic and fun. The left one is a metallic twist of three threads and worked fine. The orange is a heavy Perle type thread. The green is Perle Cotton #8. The yellow is a silk. The last one is an ombre cotton knitting yarn that's a tube.

 

I learned that using a tapestry needle was a good idea. I work on my lap and poked myself with the sharp one. The needle needs to be large enough to let the thread go through to anchor the stitch. Also, don't wrap the thread so tightly that you can't pull the needle through.

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 Pistil Stitch is the one Sharon of http://pintangle.com chose this week. I found two samples on my flower sampler. The yellow in the top center with the orange French Knot center is done with Perle Cotton. The center bottom is one in red embroidery floss.

Here it's used to hold shisha mirrors in place on the front of a vest.

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This week's challenge from http://pintangle.com is the Sheaf Stitch.

The top is a perle type thread. Next is a variegated sock yarn.  The violet is a ribbon thread. Then I combined it with the perle, but the perle overwhelmed it. The last is the stitch done irregularly.

 I'm getting quite a number of samplers and noticed that they have added up over the years. They are fun to look back on to see what I was doing.

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Linked Double Chain is the stitch this week from http://pintangle.com  Another stitch I hadn't done before. Both sides are using sock yarn leftovers. The silver is a ribbon yarn; the other a fuzzy yarn. This stitch would be good for background texture and plant like things.

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Here is the Pekinese Stitch http://pintangle.com  I like working on a dark background to make the stitches pop. This one is wool. The Pekinese stitch is easy to make wander, because it is based on a back stitch base that is worked into.

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http://pintange.com is the site of the Stitch Challenge. This week features the Cast on Stitch.I added this to my flower sampler. It's done in Perle Cotton and is only about 1/2".

To see what happens with unusual threads I tried variegated leftover sock yarn on the right. The top is the fuzzy thread. The middle left is a silver knitting ribbon. The bottom is a 1/2" wide variegated ribbon. I like this stitch.

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The next stitch for the challenge at http://pintangle.com is the Algerian Eye stitch.

Now To catch up with last week stitch which was the Oyster Stitch. I rather like that one.

The stitch structure is lost with the variegated ribbon but it's my favorite-great for texture.

I'll keep posting as I can and hope for the best.

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I've gotten behind in TAST by being out of town. Here is the Up and down buttonhole.

The green is Perle Cotton and done in the traditional way. The browns are to see what happens in overlapping the rows.

The rust is a thick but smooth thread worked randomly. The yellow is silk and worked back to back overlapping the rust in places.

The last is hard to see and was hard to work even with a big needle because the thread is lumpy.

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http://pintangle.com is the site of the challenge.  This stitch is the Basque Stitch which I haven't done before but really liked and even added a row to my Crazy Quilt.

The top row is a two plied wool yarn done randomly. The middle is cotton with an eyelash type of thread plied into it. The bottom is embroidery floss done back to back.

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The Bonnet Stitch is next for TAST-the challenge from http://pintangle.com

I don't think this is my stitch. First I used a cotton knitting thread and didn't take the bite through the fabric at the bottom. I guess I did a detached version.

Then I read the directions instead of just looking at the picture-not good at that but if all else fails...maybe I'll read them.

The left side green is it done in the normal manner. The right side is freeform. The thread is Perle Cotton #8.

The brown is a cotton thread of unknown origin but appears to be cotton. I changed the distance of the bottom part of the stitch. There really is nothing to keep it in place.

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Palestrina Knot is the next stitch from http://pintangle.com  The green is perle cotton #8 done in a regular manner but changing the length of the bite.  Under it, I tried two rows in a curve.  The violet is ribbon floss done randomly.

First the brown was stitched; then the yellow was stitched over it alternating the placing. Finally, I used my fuzzy yarn.

This is a jacket I bought years ago in Santa Barbara when a friend and I went up to shop. It was plain, so I decorated it using my usual method of working on small pieces of felted wool and then applying them to the jacket. 

 To intergrate the pieces, I stitched a row of Palestrina around each of them. The beads were added directly to the jacket.

 It's not a new piece but has lots of Palestrina stitch on it.

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Cabled Chain is the next stitch from http://pintangle.com  It's a stitch I haven't done before, so the first group is to see how it looked done in a normal way and using Perle Cotton #8 which shows the structure well. It would make a nice filling.

The orange is a heavy perle type thread and needed to be worked larger. The two rows are whipped together with a variegated tan to rust wool thread. The rows could be threaded too, or double whipped and threaded

Next is a thread with fuzzies on it worked randomly.

Finally, I tried changing the scale within the row. I think this is a stitch I'll use more of.

Take a Stitch Tuesday

This week's stitch at http://pintangle.com is the Buttonhole Wheel. I realized that in my stitch book I had done some on the buttonhole page.

Then I checked my flower sampler and found more.

And yet another one.

 Next I worked the one that were experimental by doing the pink in mohair with a yellow perle cotton over it. Then the fuzzy yarn alternating half circle rows. Next came the crochet cotton in a half circle making the size increase and then decrease. I think this has real possibilities.

On my Crazy quilt block, I did the part circles to create a stem of flowers.

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This is the Knotted Cretan-the next stitch given by Sharonb at www.pintangle.com

I like Cretan anyway, so adding the knot wasn't a problem and adds lots of texture. The green is done in perle cotton #8 with the right side showing more than one knot on each stitch.

The yellow it to show how they can nest. The right side is done wonky.

The orange is a heavier thread called Isabella. It was in my stash, so I don't know if it is even still available. The next row shows it with the perle done over it.

Time was short this week, so it's just a simple example.

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The Butterfly Chain is this week's stitch from Sharon at http://pintangle.com I hadn't done it before but like what you can do with it.

This seems to be my busy week, so I'll answer comments here. The challenge quilt is about 40" by 30" Annie.

The vest pattern is fun, but the armeye is pretty high. It would be easy to lower it and also to make the vest longer if you wanted. It's knit sideway which tends to be more flattering to most bodies anyway. It's just rectangles(so am I) starting at the underarm, across the back, bind off for the side, cast on for the front and knit to the edge. To do the other front, just pick up stitches at the first underarm, knit that and cast on for the front, knit it , bind off.

Knitting like that has so many possibilities and works for more than two yarns without having so many ends to weave in.

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 http://pintangle.com is the site of the stitch challenge. Bullion Knot this time, so I tried it in a bumpy thread-a real challenge and then a fuzzy one. It's hard to see with the fuzzy yarn but was easy to work which surprised me. I put it on my sampler with the French Knot-seemed logical.

the Columbia Stitchery had a group that was learning to do Brazilian Embroidery. Here is my Poinsettia. Hard to believe I made those long knots.

The Rose is another sample from that time with Buttonhole loops on the outside. I really should do something with them other than store them in a notebook.

More samples. That knot can do a lot of things.

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Half Chevron is this week's stitch for TAST-a challenge from http://pintangle.com  I like what it does with the overlapping of different threads but the curved sample is my favorite.

I found and photographed this fungus on some dead tree trunks. It's very pretty in person, so it's probably poison. When I was a guide at the science museum, it seemed that the pretty things were. I googled it but just found photos-need to try some more as time permits.

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Crossed Buttonhole is the next stitch from Sharon at http://pintangle.com  I try to always have some crazy quilt blocks ready for stitching in case I have to wait somewhere and had this green one. It shows the regular stitch and then two rows of it done back to back using Perle cotton. It will end up getting more stitches.

This is the experimental one. The light green is Perle Cotton 8. I used the fuzzy one over the first row and dropped down a bit. It also gets smaller as you look to the right.