Adding some stitches

But then I think some embellishment would not

be wrong and I started to make stitched detached leaves

I used some woven picot stitch versions

as I took them from Sharon B‘s stitch dictionary

 http://pintangle.com/stitch-dictionary/

sketching the stitches into my own book of stitches with samples

From left to right:

woven picot - two-pronged picot - closed-base needle-woven picot - drizzle stitch

The two-pronged woven picot I found in Kate Sinton‘s „Stumpwork“

For the apple stem the drizzle stitch is just the thing.


The needle is not nicely drawn - anyway take out the thread from the needle 

and make buttonhole stitches around the needle. Finally you thread the needle

again and pull the thread through all the buttonhole stitches.





Aren‘t the drizzle stitches just like withered apple blossoms? 

Little wood

Autumn leaves on white stems

I made mostly lazy daisy stitches and French knots

after wrapping the stems.

A few forlorn drizzle stitches which you hardly can see because

my thread is so thin. It is a multicoloured fine perlé.

The square is about 4 cm (1 1/2")

 

Mit Blogsy veröffentlicht

Portuguese border stitch

 Soon I will make - or buy ready-made - the Advent wreath

 

With the new stitch - the Portuguese border stitch -

I thought of braiding a wreath

and as the season is approaching

an Advent wreath came out of my needle

 

 

I used a pretty thick viscose thread which is

rather difficult to handle but the shine to it is wonderful.

To depict the needles I used barred chain stitch

on the inner and outer circle.

And where the stitches were not very even I made drizzle stitches

and tatted rings.

Tatted rings are also on the sides made of 6 stranded mouliné thread

 

 

Mary Corbet has just lately put on a tutorial

how to make a six-pointed star and it came in very handy for me.

You find it here: six-pointed star

Thank you Mary!!!

 

My star is still looking very poor - it was a first try.

 

Moreover, SharonB - who gives us all those very interesting stitches

- the Portuguese border stitch is the 47th this year -

also pointed it out in her blog pintangle.com

find it here: http://pintangle.com/

There are so many interesting things to see, to read and to do.

 

Freebie Friday tutorial

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:13 AM PST

 

 

 

That's it for today

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drizzle stitch

If I look at this photo which I made at Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines where we visited the 18. Carrefour du Patchwork (Alsace, the most eastern department in France ) I do not wonder why I made......

 

 

my drizzle stitches like that ....

 

 

 

 

Although I did not in the least think of this photo

 

 

 

 

Here is a closer shot - there was no sun all day

even some rain.