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7.3.12

Touch My Stitches #16: Detached Chain Stitch

Day 272 Week 7 of 52 of the TAST Challenge. The Detached Chain Stitch or Daisy Stitch or Lazy Daisy Stitch.

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Still continuing to catch up on all my TAST stitches but slowly getting there, yay! I was going to work this piece in all white originally but then I was sitting here in my studio and saw the vintage wooden spool of red thread and knew that was where I had to go next. This is a part of my whole, go with the flow plan, and not trying to predict where each piece will take me. I feel like this is allowing me to enjoy and focus on the stitches more, be a part of the process.

I went with the cliche' flowers on this one. No originality. BUT I was going to stop here and now I have spied another color of thread on the vintage shelf that will fill in the flowers on this lattice work better AND I am going to continue it all the way around the border.

I LOVE wooden spools. Found a big lot of these while out thrifting one day, in a tool box under a bunch of rusty tools and the owner just wanted to get rid of them so I walked out with a steal...and I am using them which is a bonus to me.

Not all of my stitches are perfect, I was chatting and watching my kids while they were at their activities so I would make them too wide or make the attachment too far from the stitch. I did go back and correct some of the more horrendous mistakes but for the most part I left it alone. I also have been adding some free floating petals to this 'scape (I seriously need to come up with a name for this one.). I have in mind to float some more petals across the center too.

You can see I still haven't soaked off the marks from the border stitches. I couldn't wait to start on the next stitch though. I can see in my head what this part will look like with the additional of more colored flowers and will most likely finish that part before moving on to the next stitch-3 more to go and then I will be caught up to this week!

Find all the weekly TAST stitches that I have completed HERE.

Take A Stitch Tuesday (TAST)<<--Come check it out and join in!

Week 1: Fly Stitch

Week 2: Buttonhole Stitch

Week 3: Feather Stitch

Week 4: Cretan Stitch-Open

Week 5: Herringbone Stitch

Completed Oceanscape with first 5 Stitches.

Week 6: Chevron Stitch

What will you create today?

5.3.12

Touch My Stitches #15 : Chevron Stitch

Day 271 Week 6 of 52 of the TAST Challenge. The Chevron Stitch

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I am behind on my weekly stitches but continuing to challenge myself to finish them and learn more about stitching. In keeping with my free developing 'Scape series I saw this fabric at the store and knew that it was going to be the background for the next set of stitches. I know I said I was going to do this all with scrap fabrics but A. It really spoke to me and B. I had a coupon. It is a printed Duck Cloth, I really like stitching on this fabric because it is a little thicker and well it just works for me.

But with duck cloth you really have to finish the edges because they get all shreddy, especially after washing. Here I zigzaged the edges and cut them with pinking scissors.

The Chevron was a little more time intensive and a little less free flowing. I really had to put down not only long straight lines but smaller dashes where the top and bottom T parts would go.

After washing the duck cloth becomes very soft and flowing so it was hard to keep the stitches straight, even with the drawn lines. Normally, I do not hoop but I tried here it just didn't work out because the stitches were on the edge of the fabric, I didn't have a big enough hoop and the stitches themselves were bigger than I expected in this piece. Perhaps I will investigate getting one of those rectangular frames in the future.

I am not quite sure what this is going to be but I had it in my head that this would be a frame of some kind. Framing what we shall see as I move on to the next stitch. I would have liked to see these stitched smaller but this is what my hand and head were telling me to do.

You can see all the marks I had to make. The fabric is soaking and then I will have to dry and iron before moving on to the next stitch because the red pencil marks turned parts of the white thread pink.

I have never worked this stitch before. I definitely made a few mistakes, these are not as free flowing as some of the other ones. You have to really concentrate to keep them straight and as even as possible. I did pick out some of the mistakes but others I left in so in the future I can see where I started from.