#37 Kiko's Flower Stitch. This was an easy stitch, basically a detached a few detached loops and then a boullion stitch joining them on the edge. The pink thread is very course and bulky ... the part at the right is the Kiko stitch. The leaf is also an example, but it was a soft thread and doesn't show the stitch well either.
#35 Spiked Knotted Cable Chain http://www.pintangle.com/journal/2010/10/26/tast-2010-week-35-spiked-knotted-cable-chain.h
#33 Lock Stitch: I love the look of this stitch and, best of all, it is easy! http://www.pintangle.com/journal/2010/10/12/tast-2010-week-33-lock-stitch.html
The task is to experiment with the stitch, different threads and sizes of stitches.
# 29 Raised Chain Variation: green foundation with pink raised chain. The second sample is a curved line of foundation with the thicker thread chained in a loose stitch.
I had fun with this. I found the heavier threads to be the easiest to pack down for a dense weaving. I liked the green hairy one, rather than couch a single line of a hairy stitch ... you can get a wider band. The finer cotton threads were more difficult to get a good look. The silkier finer threads were a little easier. I liked the look of the open woven rope - longer one. The fuzzy beige one was a fuzzy velvety thread and might work for a caterpillar ... or something.
The Chained Cross is an easy stitch, it begins with a diagonal stitch and the second stitch is a loop. It is an interesting stitch and the photo shows detail well with the course thread (hand dyed).
Tast II week #23- The Waved Chain Stitch. This was an easy stitch to do. It is a chain stitch in 3 lengths of stitch. The top two stitching samples create a wave. The bottom sample uses the wave stitch as a a filler stitch. The flower is just a detached chain.
Week # 24 Siennese Stitch. This one is also easy ... as you can see in the single stitches. The variegated thread used is hand dyed.
TAST II #16 Italian Knotted Border Stitch ... loved this one!
TAST II # 17 Sword Stitch - simple and could be used in many ways.
TAST II #18 Wave Stitch ... a great filler stitch, easy
If you want to look at the source of the challenge. Look to the right for the Pin Tangle Blog.
TAST II # 13 Raised Cup: Examples: yellow-orange is cord with 3 small beads in the center, yellow is soft heavy embroidery thread with a little pink angelina in the center, the blue is a woven variegated hand-dyed ribbon and the purple is a wool thread with a center french knot.
TAST II # 14 Herringbone Buttonhole: easy to do and makes a raised texture.
And, for the good news ... I'm up to date with the TAST II challenge!
The fabric is hand dyed.
This is a great stitch. It can be pretty and neat or large and with texture.
The curved sample uses too many veriegated threads and the design gets lost.
I varied this sitch with distance between stitches, different weights of thread and 3 or 4 wraps to the stitch. My mother did this stitch in a tray linen I use on my tea-wagon.
I varied the texture and thickness of threads and size of stitches. The dark heavy example is on a ladder of fine cord and the loops are made with a bulky thread made from twisted silk threads. The silk threads are East Indian sari garments that are taken apart ... thread by thread.
This is alternating big and small X stitches. A bead is stitched over the small X stitch and a row of buttonhole stitches cover the long Xstitch floats.
I liked this stitch, there is a nice rhythm to the process. It lends itself to addition of a bead in the center.
So ... with some help from Sharon, I did the stitch correctly.
