The latest stitch assigned was #103, the Beaded Butterfly Chain Stitch: And it's completion has resulted in the completion of a new page of stitch samples: The stitches on this page include the Linked Chain and Beaded Linked Chain stitches, Shell Chain and Beaded Shell Chain stitches, Eastern and Beaded eastern stitches, Triangular Buttonhole and Beaded Triangular Buttonhole stitches and the Beaded Butterfly Chain stitch.
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These stitches, Triangular Buttonhole and Beaded Triangular Buttonhole, were relatively easy but I made it more complicated by trying to use the larger beads that fit over my needle so... Here are five rows of the stitches, four in large size to accommodate the beads and one smaller to show how it would make a border: I like how it worked up in variegated perle cotton... but I think I'd like the beaded versions better if the beads were smaller and I was using floss or silk.
Stitch 100 is the Beaded Eastern Stitch. Here's my example: I didn't do many because the thread I pulled form my stash was very short and I was being lazy. Besides, I wanted to start my February Bead Journal piece so I can get THAT out of the way and start planning for March (Crazy Quilt Journal and Bead Journal) and "Save a Stitch" SAL by Elizabeth Almond. Besides, "Roll Your Own" part 1 (of 9) is nearing the 75% completion point and I want to get that out of the way and start the outline for the second mandala! I feel like I may be setting myself up for another WIP overload...
Got in some stitching on my Crazy Quilt Journal block for February, where I carried on with some of the Hoffman Challenge fabrics for 2014: and Sharon B came up with a new stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday: The Eastern Stitch (or Egyptian Buttonhole Stitch), which I tried stitching three ways:
Stitch 97 was the Shell Chain Stitch and Stitch 98 was the Beaded Shell Chain Stitch: I tried the beaded variation three ways --- one bead per chain, two beads per chain (I would have tried more but only two of teh size that would pass over my #26 needle) fit and one bead every other chain. I think I like the one every other chain best... Those are pale pink beads, although you would never know it once threaded onto that rose-colored perle!.
Another variation of a chain stitch that I like very much... An interesting stitchy week which included WIPocalypse, International Hermit and Stitch Weekend and a completion ("Ladybug & Daisy")! Kind of left my project bag a little thin so I finally bit the bullet and started the outline for "Roll Your Own", the first of nine mandalas from a Tracy Horner/InkCircles stitchalong which has been kitted up for months but never started. The outline is fiddly in that it needs to be carefully counted, so there will be no frogging, so I am going very slowly on this. In two days, I haven't even finished one page of the charted outline (there are four full pages and two half pages altogether): I'm stitching this one on overdyed fabric from SIlkweaver (it's called Iris and I've used it before for one of my Sumptuous Surface Embroidery pieces) in the Tropical Ocean colorway (lots of blues and greens). I also did the latest Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches (she's slowing these down so there won't be one a week, and they will be more beads and silk ribbon and the like). These are stitches 95 and 96 - the Linked Chain and the Beaded Linked Chain, respectively. I also played around with layouts for a February Crazy Quilt Journal block and with a design for my February Bead Journal Project piece. It was a busy week, with clean bills of health from my optometrist and my general practitioner, a stamping demo in Toledo and the Black Swamp Hosta and Daylily luncheon. All this despite the weather which, even though much better than the previous week, was cold and snowy... January continues to advance here towards a record, all-time snowfall --- we are now in third place, moving up fast with last night's half inch to one inch or so (only 0.1" separating the totals of first, the infamous year of the "Blizzard of '78" and second place years so we should be neck and neck right now!). With the snow we got last night, and with snow predicted for the next five days, albeit in small scattered amounts, odds are January 2014 will be a record setting month for all-time snow *and* all-time cold! Why, or why, or why-o did I EVER come back to Ohio? I bet these birds are wondering why they didn't migrate to warmer climes too!
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