Last night I finished another page for my stitch sampler fabric book. It’s a long term project which I’ve based on last years 100 TAST stitches on Pintangle. Sharon from Pintangle has just started another TAST (Take a Stitch Tuesday) so if you fancy learning a new stitch each week, follow the link.
I started this page when we were visiting family in Weston just before Christmas. I’d not heard of Chevron stitch before but I really like it. The basic stitch is the one on the top row, which doesn’t look anything exciting, but it can then be layered, stacked into diamonds, embellished with other stitches or beads. It took me a bit of time to get my head around the maths with this stitch, especially when changing size or proportions.
I also learned Half Chevron stitch which I like even more! I love the geometric patterns you can make with it. The deep border is inspired by one of Sharon’s photos on Pintangle, in fact I think it’s the photo that first really piqued my interest in TAST. I just love this border, especially in the variegated thread. This thread is DMC 4025, it’s a nice gentle mix of blues and teals. I think it would also look stunning in a more striking variegated thread.
I’ve stitched seven pages now, I think once I’ve done about three more I’ll start stitching them together, I don’t want to be left with a whole book to stitch up at the end! I also think seeing the book take shape will spur me on to stitch more pages.
Sharon is also running a new project called Beyond TAST, where each month you experiment with just one stitch, see what you can do with it. January’s stitch is running stitch, it’s surprising what you can create with such a simple stitch, there’s some beautiful examples on facebook. I might just make running stitch my next page of the stitch sampler.
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I learned some basic stitches in 4-H club and a couple winters ago I re taught myself a few. There are so many great websites out there with great how-tos posted. Handwork is very relaxing isn’t it.
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I find it very relaxing, the stitch dictionary on Pintangle is great, really good instructions and ideas.
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I´m also following TAST. I´m a bit ahead of 2018 TAST because I started in October 2017, following one of the older TAST.
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I’ve based my sampler on last years list, I’m hoping to do a bit of Beyond TAST this year.
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Yes, me too!
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Lovely! And such a good idea to log date and location where you created the stitches.
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Thanks Kate, I wanted it to be a bit more than just a row of stitches.
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You almost made me want to take up embroidery there but then you said ‘maths’ and you lost me again.
Seriously though, your stitches are always so pretty, maybe I’ll get round to learning one of these days.
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There’s only maths if you stitch on even weave! I think you’d love it 🙂
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I love seeing your progress on this!
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Thanks Kerry
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Every time you post a page, I think I’d like to do this, then I regain my common sense and say, not yet!
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Maybe soon…:-)
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wonderful book page and what a great SAL! Thank you for sharing a link to TAST, I’d not heard of it previously.
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Thanks Kaelyn, Pintangle is a great resource and TAST lets you learn at a steady pace.
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Looks fantastic
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Thank you
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This is really lovely. I love how you are managing the stitches are creating a great library of stitches.
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Thanks Catherine, I was pleased the other week when I actually used it for ideas on stitches 🙂
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Your sampler is a great idea, and I love this stitch. Like Kathy, I think “wow, what a wonderful idea” and then remember all the other things I want and need to do! But maybe I can just have a play with the chevron stitch……
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A sampler book is such a cool idea! I love the stitches you’ve shown here.
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a good idea to start assembling a few pages as you go ^^
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This is so beautiful, it’s such a great idea to make a book of all different stitches 🙂
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Chevron is one of my all-time favorite stitches. It’s such a perfect starting point for many things. Your book is going to be a great history and sampler of stitches.
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I love everything about this stitch book you are creating, I love the way you have documented the page of each stitch. I joined TAST last year and began again this year.
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Another beautiful stitched page! Can’t wait to see running stitch!
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Gorgeous stitching!
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I have always liked doing embroidery…I did my first project as young girl and have dabbled in it ever since. I love seeing your stitching …so creative!
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What a neat idea a stich sampler book. Your chevron page looks so pretty. Well done!!
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