Wool Patchwork - Part 3

Detached chain stitch, fly stitch

French knots, straight stitch, fly stitch, chevron stitch

All together

More Wool Patchwork

Stitches include buttonhole wheels, buttonhole stitch with French knots, detached chain stitches with French knots, stitched on vintage fabrics.

On the Pintangle site, Sharon has a tutorial on how to work decorative crazy quilt seams.

Herringbone Variations

 The herringbone stitch is the pale purple thread together with single fly stitches in yellow and red.

The row across is another form of herringbone stitch - twisted lattice band. This is made up of double herringbone stitch which has been laced. I used four colours here, pale purple, yellow threaded with orange and red, although normally just two colours are used. [I should have taken a close up] This stitch is number 121 of Take a Stitch Tuesday. The fabrics are remnants of vintage wool and cord. This is a picture of my mother wearing a coat made from the purple and black fabric. I'm not sure of the date of the photo but she is 86 now and I can remember her wearing the coat when I was young.

Needle Felting and Doodles

 I hope you all had a happy week/Christmas/holiday. Above is my first attempt at needle felting. I've fancied a go at this for some time as I've seen lots of animals and brooches made with it which are really nice. [and I had some wool which needed using, (but had to buy the needles)]

Below are doodles from book 11