TAST 2012 Week6. Chevron stitch-1

Week sixth stitch of the TAST 2012 stitch challenge by SharonB is chevron . This stitch was also a part of the earlier TAST challenge. I worked this stitch when it was rerun on the stitchin fingers group. But I did not post the pictures then.
I returned from India today, so did not have time to start on new variations of this stitch.
I am uploading the pictures taken of my earlier sampler-
Part1-

6.chevst1-1

Part2-

6.che1-2

Part3

6.che1-3

Part4-

6.che1-4

Part5-

6.che1-5

Part6-

6.che1-6

Part7-

6.che1-7

I have to think of some variations of chevron stitch on plain cloth with other stitches,but that’s for tomorrow!

 

TAST 2012 Week5 herringbone stitch2-1

This week’s stitch of the stitch challenge TAST 2012 BY SharonB is herringbone stitch . This was the first week’s stitch of the earlier TAST challenge.
I had already posted this sampler on my blog, but for easy reference I am posting it again.
Herringbone sampler- part1

herringbone st1-1

Herringbone st sampler-part2

herringbone st1-2

Herringbone st sampler-part3

herringbone st1-3

Herringbone stitch sampler-

herringbonest1 sampler

 

TAST 2012.Week4- Cretan stitch1-1

This week’s stitch on the TAST 2012 Challenge by SharonB is cretan stitch.
This was 4th week stitch on the first TAST challenge. I had not participated in the first one, but when it was rerun on Stitchin fingers, I joined and did a few stitches, I did not complete that challenge either.
But this Cretan stitch I had worked but did not post the pictures. So before I start working on this stitch exploration, these are the pictures of the ones done in 2009.
1st part-

4.cretan st1-1

The Cretan stitch was worked in even weave.

4.cretatn st1-2

Again this stitch can be experimented on plain cloth.

4.cretan st1-3

That’ll be the challenge for this week.

4.cretan st1-4

Enjoy the experiments.
Thanks for all your encouraging and inspiring comments.

 

TAST 2012 Week 3 feather stitch-1

This week’s stitch of the TAST stitch challenge by Sharon is feather. It was the week 7th stitch of the earlier challenge. Though I had worked this stitch, while checking found that I had not posted it on the web.
The pictures of my feather stitch sampler-

7. feather st sampler-1

Part 2-

7.feather st sampler-2

Part 3-

7. feather st sampler-3

Part 4

7. feather st sampler-4

Part 5-

7. feather st sampler-5

Thank you all for your appreciation.

 

TAST 2010 25. Vandyke stitch-3

This is the 25th week stitch of the stitch challenge TAST2010 by Sharon.B.
The third set of variations-
3a.the Vandyke stitches go up and down on this row.
3b.the Vandyke stitches are worked on a curve.
3c. the same long and short Vandyke stitches are done with two stitches together, the last few stitches have a mind of there own towards the end.LOL!

vandyke st-3a,3b,3c

Another set of Vandyke stitch variations

 

TAST 2010 25. Vandyke stitch-2

This is the 25th week stitch of the stitch challenge TAST2010 by Sharon.B.
The next set of variations-
2a.the Vandyke stitches are worked on a row of long and short stitches
2b.here the Vandyke stitches are worked towards the top, making the bottom longer.
2c. the Vandyke stitches are worked on two rows of intercepting stitches.

vandyke st-2a,2b,2c

A few more variations are there.

 

TAST 2010 25. Vandyke stitch-1

This is the 25th week stitch of the stitch challenge TAST2010 by Sharon.B.
Iam sharing the variations I have tried of this stitch-
1a.this row I learnt how to work this stitch.
1b.the  stitches worked  are quite long.
1c the  stitches are short and the thread used is thick in this row.

vandyke stitch-1a,1b,1c

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Hubby’s kurthas

We get wonderful range of handloom cotton fabrics in Madras.I buy most of my wearables from there.I feel cotton is the best for the summer heat. so many colours, designs,combinations-imagination can run riot here.This time I designed 2 kurthas for my Hubby-

G's red kurtha

The colour dosen’t show well in this picture,It’s a blood red  mercerised cotton fabric.,the pattern is typical Indian kurtha design,I wanted to attach some beads,which raised very strong objection. So, no beads !

G's white kurtha

The fabric is cotton,self block printed white. I like this particular fabric very much. I didn’t work too much on the pattern, just simple curves,and ‘fly’  stitched withanchor  cotton skein. These kurthas were custom made[not upto the mark]. Next time I want to try on readymade kurthas.

 

TAST week-20, tutorials? patterns?

 

 

Butterfly chain stitch- this is th20th week stitch of TAST stitch challenge.The stitch was a easy one, though I couldn’t do many variations. Seeing all my variations, I want to start crazy quilting after finishing my TAST samplers.

I was browsing the net-

Shawkl is also running a stitch challenge- Twelve dozen stitches in Twelve months-TDSTM.That comes to 3 stitches in a week, I want to join ,but not sure whether I can allot sufficient time to it.-www.shawkl.com.

Shailaja sharma -www.summersofindia.blogspot.com. She has posted a tutorial on ‘anklet stitch’.Till now I can’t get any idea of using this stitch, I’ll wait for her to show me the ropes.

I find  some people are very much interested in learning kutchwork  and phulkari.

 Bhavani Harikrishnan has already provided a good Kutchwork tutorial on her blog-www.needlecrazy.blogspot .com

I f someone could give me a feedback on-

1. You need another kutchwork tutorial?

2 You need kutchworkpatterns?I design my own patterns.

This will help me focus my attention to either of these options.

I ‘ll also start working on my phulkari tutorial and patterns.

 

TAST week-19 basque stitch

This sampler is also in blue. I wanted the shades of peacock blue,can’t say I was successful.Experimenting with this stitch was ok.

 

the curls made this stitch interesting.