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Tast week 26
Palestrina stitch.

 I really enjoyed this stitch. 
I have been wanting to make pictures with my stitches but do not have the experience to see a stitch and think that it will make a nice outline for a leaf or a seahorse. Queenie here is a link to queeniepatch suggested starting simple so here are my 3 circles.
There have been some stunning work done with this stitch check it out here on Sharons pintangle site.

 This is a side view I like how this has been raised off the fabric. Do not know if this is what is supposed to happen but it is a different effect.




I have also posted on stitchin fingers site so will see if I can link to that as well stitchinfingers will try this out fingers crossed 
Still learning how to blog it is getting better slowly.


Thank you everyone for all the encouragement that I get on my blog






 

Tast week 25 cable chain

Sharon's blog link to tast here

 

Tast weeks 21,22 and 24

I started this blog in an attempt to make myself write about anything really. I thought that by choosing stitches to write about it would help. What it has done is stopped me posting my stitches because I do not know what to say. So I think that I will post the photo's without putting pressure on myself to say a great deal about it all. It is the stitches which are important not what I have or have not got to say about it. 

Here is three week of tast stitches. 

Butterfly chain stitch

Knotted cretans

Buttonhole fan.

Sharon's blog Tast here

Tast Bullion Stitch
Week 20

Well I did not know when I started this Tast I would learn so many new stitches and so many different ways of using them. For some really good examples go to Sharon's web site here.
 My selection of bullion stitch. A versatile stitch many comments on it being worm like. I can see this but also roses of which I have not mastered yet. With a bit of experiment I like the way that if you do not pull the stitch to tight when putting it in its place you can make it curl.I can see that with a bit more practice it may be possible to manipulate it more.

A close up of my stitch the needle that I used for the long straight bullion is 1.1/2 inches, and the straight bullion is 1 inch. I also used this needle with the green thread and it curled really nicely. The pink is wool and I think it loses the lines. The blue and red are two threads mixed together.

Tast 19

Half Chevron

 This is a lovely stitch their are so many different  combinations. I have been looking at how others have used this stitch will defiantly be using some of those.  Look on Pintangle Here take a stitch-tuesday

Just realised that I have not put up the wheatear stitch so here it is. 

 



 


 

Tast week 18
Crossed Buttonhole stitch

Sharon's blog pintangle


http://pintangle.com tast
 

 

Close up of crossed buttonhole stitch. I like the way that when looked at from a distance on from on top it looks like cross stitch but you have a surprise when you look close up.

 

 I have used this for couching different shapes and it seem to work well. I like the different effects you can get just by changing the stitch length. A good one for my crazy quilt.