TAST 2013.16.64.Top knotted buttonhole stitch-3

Today some stitch combinations were worked on this sampler.

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5.These stitch samples are combination of top knotted buttonhole stitches with- buttonhole stitch, closed buttonhole stitch, crossed buttonhole stitch and basque stitch.

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6.In the first sample, after working sheaf stitch , the top knotted buttonhole stitches are looped through them in Pekinese stitch style. Arrowhead stitches are worked below the knots in the second sample. Top knotted buttonhole stitch is whipped and Italian border stitches are worked between the knots in the last sample.

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This stitch looks quite decorative by itself, combining it with other stitches gives scope to explore this stitch. I happy that I learnt this lovely stitch. As Queenie patch mentioned it looks like Thai script. In our country, some eastern languages like, Bengali, Oriya and Assamese script also look like this but with more curves.

bengali script

The sampler-

16.64.top knotted buttonhole sticth sampler

 

TAST 2013.16.64.Top knotted buttonhole stitch-2

Yesterday I tried some variations of this stitch.

16.64.top knotted buttohole st-sampler2

3.The first row is the slightly curved version of this stitch, the second row is worked with two threads.

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4.After working two rows of top knotted buttonhole stitches, they are whipped with lighter thread in the first sample. A black thread is laced through two rows of buttonhole stitches in the second sample.

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TAST 2013.13.61.Up and down feather stitch-1

This week’ stitch of the TAST 2013 challenge by SharonB is up and down feather stitch. This stitch was part of the earlier TAST challenge. I had posted my old sampler here. After dealing with the variations of the stitch last time, this time I tried working this stitch with other TAST stitches. The sampler –

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1,The first row is worked with berry stitches and the second row with buttonhole stitch on both sides.

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2,The first row is a combination with Italian border stitch and the second row is a combination with Algerian eye stitch variation.

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3.A line of feather stitch is worked over the up and down feather stitch in the first row, small up and down feather stitches are worked in dark green in the spaces of up and down feather stitch row in the second sample. Not very impressive though!

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TAST 2013.12.60.Diamond stitch-3

Stitch combinations are interesting, and if the stitch itself can be worked differently, it gives more opportunity for learning and practicing the stitch. Today’s explorations-
The last part of the sampler-

12.60.diamond stitch sampler3

The details-
6.In these samples, I tried isolating this stitch and working them in diamond and square shapes.

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7.The same isolated diamond stitches are worked in the first row, the starting point of the following stitch is inside the preceding stitch. I tried working two diamond stitches together to form a broad seam, I got this idea from looking at Annet’s samples.

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8.The diamond stitches are worked at angle in these rows, first row is to the right and the second row to the left. In these samples, I took an effort to stitch by angling the needle, whereas when I started this sampler, the stitches themselves angled in all directions-LOL!

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9. In the first row, the diamond stitch is whipped on both sides.in the second row, rimjim thread is used to lace a diamond stitch row, Pekinese stitch is worked under the diamond stitch row in the third row. A beaded diamond stitch is worked in the fourth and last row. The idea for the last row was also from the same blog

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The whole sampler-

12.60.diamond stitch sampler

While I was struggling with this stitch at the beginning of the sampler, the thought was to work some stitch combinations through which this stitch could also be practiced. But after the practice, I wanted to explore this stitch. Which made this exercise quite interesting.

 

TAST 2013.12.60.Diamond stitch-2

I experimented this diamond stitch with other TAST stitches today.

12.60.diamond stitch -sampler2

3.The first row is with sheaf stitch and the second row is with Algerian eye stitch variation.

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4.Two stitches were combined with diamond stitch in these samples. The first row the stitches are Breton stitch and pistil stitch. The second row was worked with two rows of arrowhead stitch and French knots.

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5.Chain stitch line is worked between two rows of diamond stitch in this sample.

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TAST 2013.4.52.Triangular feather stitch-3

After working on some more samples this week’s triangular feather stitch sampler is completed.
The last part of the sampler-

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6. In these rows, the triangles are worked in the same manner, the variations are only on the basic feather stitches.The first row is worked with up and down feather stitch. In the second row, the feather stitches are facing away from each other, making the first feather stitches look like chain stitches [ this detail is to remind me at a later date, the working of this sample] . The third row is worked with knotted feather stitches.

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7 .In these samples, other TAST stitches are worked with triangular feather stitches. The other stitches are-french knots and Italian border stitches in the first row, wheat ear and fly stitches in the second row, chain and arrowhead stitch in the third row.

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8 .The first row is worked with pistil stitches and sheaf stitches, the second row with herringbone, buttonhole variation and oyster stitches .
Maintaining the triangular part of this stitch I tried working two other stitches. In the third row, with closed buttonhole stitches and in  the fourth row  with basque stitches. I suppose we can try many options working like this.

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With this last sample, the stitch sampler is completed.

4.52.triangular feather st- sampler

 

TAST 2012 47th week-Portuguese border stitch-2

After setting the proper method to work this stitch, I worked some more samples on this stitch sampler.

47.portuguese borderst-sampler2

3. I tried widening the stitch by working the alternate bars with a break in between in the first row. The second row is laced with rimjim thread. The third row is whipped with pink thread on both sides.

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4a. I started some combination with other TAST stitches. I wanted to work whipped chain stitch. Sheaf stitch and whipped bars with Portuguese border stitch. The rows without Portuguese border stitch-

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4b.With Portuguese border stitch-

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TAST 2012 50TH Week-Berry stitch-6

After working some more variations of berry stitch with other TAST stitches, I completed this stitch sampler.
The last part of the sampler-

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10.Berry stitches are worked with Pekinese stitch variation ,twisted chain stitch and cross stitch in these three rows

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11.I tried some French knots with berry stitches in the first row. Chevron stitch and berry stitch combination forms the second row, berry stitches are worked between basque stitches in the third row.

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This is great stitch and easy stitch for beautiful embellishments. I enjoyed working on this stitch sampler.
Beads did not feature in this sampler too. I am yet to start thinking with beads for my samplers. though I get inspired by other people’s bead work , the skill seems to elude me at this time.

 

TAST 2012 50TH Week-Berry stitch-3

I continued working berry stitch along with other TAST stitches. The third  part of the sampler-

50.berry st-sampler3

8.The berry stitches are worked with running stitch in the first row, feather stitch in the second row and two lines of arrow stitches in the third row.

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9.Three berry stitch cluster is worked with buttonhole stitch variation in the first row. long tailed berry stitch and up and down buttonhole are worked in the second row. And berry stitches are worked with two stitches – Italian border stitch variation and individual fly stitch in the third row.

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TAST 2012 50TH Week-Berry stitch-2

Some more experiments of this week’s berry stitch were done on this stitch sampler today.

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5.The second detached chain stitches over the small detached chain stitches are worked in different ways in these rows. The overlapping detached chain stitches are worked two times in the first row. The overlapping detached chain stitches are worked in open chain stitch variation and twisted chain stitches in the second row. The overlapping detached chain stitches are worked in cable chain stitch in the third row.

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6.The inner chain is worked in twisted chain in the first row. The outer chain is a combination of open chain with detached chain on top[or wheat ear stitch, I was not thinking of that stitch at this moment, though] in the second row. The outer chain is worked over the inner chain in the third row.

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7.I started working berry stitch over other TAST stitches. The first row is herringbone variation and berry stitch, Cretan stitch with berry stitches are worked in the second row.

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