Works in progress Wednesdays-151

This week was good in progress on SSS challenge. Three stitches- Rumanian stitch, Hungarian stitch and Bosnian stitch were completed. Braid stitch is the next in line. It is not behaving friendly with me. When I seem to get the slightly familiar, if a break comes, getting back to the rhythm is hard. Should I have chosen a smaller design to try this stitch? Too late now. Just have to keep doing it.
Red striped tunic
I have started with rope stitch on the stems on this red fabric.

We are having another festival today, Diwali. This time it was preparation of traditional sweets, snacks and some herbal paste to digest these highly heavy things. It was definitely an interesting week. but hard to find time to write a post.

 

TAST 2014.16.110. Rope stitch-3

I combined other stitches with rope stitch in this part of the sampler. I saw the idea of building a seam on a group, this created interest, I want to try this idea, whenever possible on my samplers.

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The stitch combinations, rope stitch with- running stitch, stem stitch[fine silk thread], linked chain stitch, coral stitch, up and down buttonhole variation, herringbone stitch in between rope stitch.

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Rope stitch shadows a row of feather stitch in the first seam, rope stitch with woven detached chain in the second seam and rope stitch with french knots, detached chains, straight stitches and double cross stitch in the last seam.

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I wanted to use this stitch for working stems, creepers, so the sampler is worked in green threads. Building seams, working samples for a specific purpose, are new steps for me. The whole sampler-

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TAST 2014.16.110. Rope stitch-2

Some more variations were worked on the sampler.

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Two rows of rope stitch are worked in the same direction in the first sample, three rows of rope stitches in a curve in different shades of green  are worked in the second sample, in the third sample, rope stitches worked with perle cotton and cotton skein are combined. perle cotton and silk threads are combined in the fourth sample. Rope stitches are worked in opposite directions in the fifth sample.

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The long rope stitch is combined with short rope stitch in the first row. The needle was inserted further in the line to form a shorter version of rope stitch, this is combined with basic rope stitch in the second row. Rope stitches are whipped and laced in the next two rows. I tried a wider version of the stitch by inserting the needle beside the previous stitch in the line in the fifth row. The detail-

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Wide and normal version of rope stitches are alternated in the sixth row.

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TAST 2014.16.110. Rope stitch-1

This week’s stitch on TAST challenge by SharonB is rope stitch. This stitch is a variation of twisted chain stitch. I worked some samples.

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The stitch worked with different threads- cotton skein, perle cotton and fine silk thread.

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Rope stitches worked in scallops and curved lines.

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