Challenges - Pin Tangle

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I am no longer adding names to this challenge but you can join in each week.

It will be up to participants to leave a comment with their correct web addy

What is TAST?

Take a Stitch Tuesday is a challenge I will run in 2012. Every Tuesday I will post a stitch and the challenge is to work a sample.

If you are learning embroidery the challenge will be to learn the stitch. If you are experienced the challenge is to push the stitch creatively.

Once you have worked a sample, you will need to photograph it and put it online at your blog, flickr or stitchin fingers page then swing back to the page the challenge stitch is presented on and leave a comment with your web address. People will visit the comments, and clicking on the link will visit you to see what you have done.

I have run TAST twice before. The stitches will not appear in the same order or necessarily all be the same.

Please link back to Pin Tangle.

Please link back to Pintangle, so that people hear about it. Help spread the word and do it as often as people often miss hearing about it first time around!

How do I know where to link?

On this blog if you click on the title of the page you will open the post on a page of its own and you can copy the web address in the top bar.

When you leave a comment include your full web address not just a flickr name or stitchin fingers name.

On stitchin fingers go to your "my page" and copy and paste the web address from the address bar at the top of your browser window.

On Flickr go to your photostream page and copy and paste the web address from the address bar at the top of your browser window.

When does it start?
January 3rd.

What is this challenge about?
Each Tuesday I will post a challenge stitch. The idea is that you work a sample, experiment a bit. Next, photograph your sample, and put it on the web so visitors can share. Then return to Pintangle to leave a comment to tell everyone where they can see your sample.

What does it Cost?

The challenge is free.

Are beginners welcome?

All skill levels are welcome

So I have to visit your blog each Tuesday?

Yes the challenge is open and public. You can have everything I write on my blog delivered daily to your email inbox. If you find this an easier way to keep in touch, please sign up. The sign up button is in the side bar. Something new is published daily.

How come last time Tuesday was Monday?

I live in Australia and will publish each Tuesday morning in Australia. For many people this will mean they see it appear on Monday evening. Australia crosses the International date line earlier that is all.

I dont have a blog or flickr site can I join?

Yes you can join. If you dont have a blog, flickr account or stitching fingers page you are more than welcome to join. This blog is open and published online for all to read. All you need to do it visit each Tuesday and stitch along.

However, since half the fun is about sharing and seeing what others stitch, I encourage you to start a flickr site, or join stitchin fingers or start a blog.

The easiest thing is to do is to join Stitchin fingers. It is free and I run it. You can post photos, and there is a community of people who are only too willing to help you if you need it. Remember to visit our sponsors because without them we would have no network.

Can I do some stitches and not others?
Yes If you want to swing in and out of the challenge as a busy life dictates that is fine.

What do I stitch on?

Fabric ... no seriously you can stitch on anything you choose. I usually use a 25 cnt or 27 cnt even weave linen but if you look at my band sampler I not only use linen but I also use Aida, and even regular dressmaking fabrics. I have a more detailed post about my band sampler and the fabrics I used.

Do I have to stitch a sampler?

No you can stitch on anything. Some people are starting a band sampler but it is definitely not a must!

What is the Project?

There is not particular project at all. The idea is experiment with stitches. They can be small samples on scraps of fabric or doodle cloths. Some people are going to make a band sampler, others are making fabric books, others working the challenge stitches on a crazy quilt block or project, while others are going to use fabric postcards, and ATCs (Artist Trading Cards). The challenge is to work the stitch. The format or project is totally up to you.

Do I have to write my post in English?

No. Today we have the marvellous tool of Google Translate. English readers can translate what you write using it.

Do we have a blog badge?

Yes we have a badge. You may use the badge to the left (right click and save the image to your desktop) It was a piece stitched by stitchin fingers member Annet, who also has a blog Fat Quarter. Annet took the previous TAST challenge and made a fabric book of samples this is the cover and she has kindly allowed the use of her image as the TAST 2012 logo. Visit her site for full details.

Will you re-run TIF (Take it Further)

For folks who are a bit more experienced with a needle I will be encouraging people to not only take a stitch and work a simple sample but to take it further and push it creatively. For experienced stitchers this will be a challenge in itself.

Other groups and networks
You can if you wish also share your explorations on stitchin fingers TAST group the flickr TAST site and on the Facebook TAST 2012 group

If you tried to register are not on the list.

I am no longer adding names to this list but feel free to join in (read the first section of this article for details) .

Participants in the 2012 TAST challenge

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2012 PROJECTS

A Bit of Me

A Little Bit of Pink

A Crazy Quilting Adventure

A Sampler of Stitches

A stitch today - the rest tomorrow...

All Kinds of Needlework

An Unexpected Hug

Ana Jocelia de Sousa Vergara on Stitchin Fingers

Anastacia Knits

AngelFairy1's photostream on Flickr

Anita Postma on Stitchin Fingers

Anna Kousi on Stitchin Fingers

Annette Garcia on Stitchin Fingers

Another Hobby Blog

Applique Addict

Applique and... stitchery, knitting, and more

Arlene's Blog

Art Abandoned

Art Journey

Artes Domésticas Miztontli

Ati's little world.....

Auroras Creative Corner

Aubirdwoman

Average Jane Crafter

Axa on Stitchin Fingers

Azucena on Stitchin Fingers

Barbara Jarvis on Stitchin Fingers

Barbara Kelly on Stitchin Fingers

Back Valley Seasons

Baul de los Retales

Bayou Quilts and Dolls

Bette Kelley on Stitchin Fingers

Beth Leintz Gathering Dust

Bette Needlework Musings

Beth's Blog

Beth's Needlework Stash

billabongs2bling

Bland garner, trasor och trådar

Blessings from our Nest

Blissfully Imperfect

Bluemuf's Corner

bo mackison's photostream on flickr

Books and Fiber

Borduurblog

Brodibidouillages et compagnie

California Fiber Artist and Composer

Can the Leopard Change her Spots

Canterbury Cottage

Carlseapatch’s Weblog

Caro Rose Creations

Carol N-B on stitchin fingers

Catherine Spalding on Stitchin Fingers

Cheryl's Chatelaine

Cheryl Greenstreet on Stitchin Fingers

Cheryl Migliarini on Stitchin Fingers

Cheryl Razmus' photostream on flickr

Chez Accrofil

Chittle Chattle

Chris Watkins on Stitchin Fingers

Christina

Christine Burton on Stitchin Fingers

Cíça Mora, Pontos e Encontros

Cindy on Stitchin Fingers

Cinzia

Claudias Blog

Cleveland Girlie

Cloverleaf Art and Fibre

Connie Eyberg Originals

Copper Toad

Corinne Loomer on Stitchin Fingers

Crafter’s Apprentice

Craftirn's photostream

Cramzy

Crazy by Design

Crazy Karol's

Crazy Quilting For Fun

Crochet and Cross Stitch Pattern Slut

Cupojoeme's photostream on Flickr

Cynthia Tatsaway

D Marie Berg on Stitchin Fingers

Daisy Winifred on Stitchin Fingers

Dancing in red shoes

Dancing Thru-threads

DeAnn on Stitchin Fingers

Debbie Blanchette on Stitchin Fingers

Debbie Blencowe's photostream

Deborah-Anne Odendaal on Stitchin Fingers

Debra’s Design Studio

Dee Mallon and Cloth Company

Dejavucreations' photostream on Flickr

Diane Duncan on Stitchin Fingers

Diane's Decorating Diary

Dimity's Fiber Adventures

Die Fadenwirkerin

Dinky Di Quilting and Craft

Diva Deb

Donna Finley on Stitchin Fingers

Doreen Parker on Stitchin Fingers

Dorothea

Downunderdale

Dragonfly on Stitchin Fingers

Dwright33055 Live, Laugh, and Love

Dyed and Gone to Heaven

Eclectic Meanderings

Eclectic Lamb

Elizabeth Anne Embroideries

Elizabeth Beglin on Stitchin Fingers

Ella’s Craft Creations

Emily Brailsford on Stitchin Fingers

Emmelinesplace

Este es mi Mundo

Eternal Arts and Crafts

Fabric Art

Fabric n Fiber Fanatic

Fibre Art All about a creative life

Fibermaidens Artwork

Filz und Glas

Flora’s Colors

Florcita fiber art and ceramic studio

Floss Needles and YarnOh My

Flower Lady’s Creations

Focus on Fiber

Freeform stitching

Get Going ... Sewing!

Getting Older

Gill on Stitchin Fingers

Gillian on Stitchin Fingers

Gina’s on Stitchin Fingers

Ginger on Stitchin Fingers

Gloria Edinger on Stitchin Fingers

Grateful Stitcher

Hand Embroidery from Sadalas

Hand Quilting

Harvest Moon by Hand

Happy Appliquer

Haripriya Tunga on Stitchin Fingers

Heather Grover on Stitchin Fingers

Home for Wayward Fairies

Inclassables Bidouilles

In the Ever After

It's All About Me !!!

Jacque Strong on Stitchin Fingers

Jacqui Boyd Alden

Jane Lyttle on Stitchin Fingers

Jane Pugliano on Stitchin Fingers

Janet Chang on Stitchin Fingers

Jane's photostream on flickr

Japanese Temari

Jeannez

Jen Eddington on Stitchin Fingers

Jennifer Parker on Stitchin Fingers

Jennifer Rosemary Blackmore on Stitchin Fingers

Jenny Penny Poppy

Jennys Craft Place

Jen's Playground

Jerusalem Notes: Fiberwork by Debbie

Jessica Grim on Stitchin Fingers

Jillan N Williams Random thoughts from a random life

Jizee6687

Joans Art

Judith S on Stitchin Fingers

Judy Cooper Textile Images

Julie Barkley on stitchin fingers

Jumpstarts

Juanita Carroll on Stitchin Fingers

Just One More Stitch!

Kaite Yarngarden

Karen Fontana on Stitchin Fingers

Kate Cooke's photostream on Flickr

Kate Roland on Stitchin Fingers

Katherines Creations

Kathryn's Page on Stitchin fingers

Kathy Eidson on Stitchin Fingers

Kathy Gill-Hopple on Stitchin Fingers

Kathy's Nest

Kapyceno Pykogenur - Carousel Craft

K. Fulton on Stitchin Fingers

Kids by Hand

Kim Bradshaw’s flickr site

Kim Stapleton on Stitchin Fingers

Kira Jones Designs

Kleas

Knits, purls and hooks

Konnykards' photostream

Kumo temari

L'Egypte, le désert, les oasis et la broderie

lartdoccupersontempslibre

Ladka Peneš page on stitchin fingers

Laura Randolph on Stitchin Fingers

Laura Wilson-Anderson on Stitchin Fingers

Lauries Charming Designs

Le blog de Giséle et de Marie

le blog de Poussine

Leftsox

Les Bricoles de Dinedoc

Let's learn embroidery

Liana D on Stitchin Fingers

Libertad Speranza on Stitchin Fingers

Life in Stitches

Linda Stromberg on Stitchin Fingers

Liniecat @ Large

Lins Art

Lisa Buckley on Stitchin Fingers

Lise's Blog

lizlaz12's photostream (Elizabeth) on flickr

Lochside quilter's photostream

Logcabin Quilter

Loopy Lou's Adventures into Handicrafts

Lorelei Halley TAST 2012 on flickr

Lorna (Rainbow 555) on Stitchin Fingers

Lorraine Barclay on Stitchin Fingers

Love Stitching Red

Love2Quilt22002

Lovely Life...

Lucia on Stitchin Fingers

Ludmila Marinae's photostream on flickr

Lycoris on Stitchin Fingers

Making Scrap Quilts from Stash

Manas duarte's

Manata

Mandy on Stitchin Fingers

Mandy Jewell on Stitchin Fingers

Maria Firstbrook on Stitchin Fingers

Marci H's photostream

Margaret Blank Fibre Artist

Margo's Musings

Marianne Squire Maszer on Stitchin Fingers

Marie-Louise Lafond on Stitchin Fingers

Marilyns Crazy Journey

Margaret Betz on Stitchin Fingers

Margreet from Holland's photostream

Married to a BMW

Mary Millwood on Stitchin Fingers

Mary's Rose Cottage

Mary Sue Rein on Stitchin Fingers

Maureen’s Vintage Acquisitions

Measi's Musings

Mehitabel's musings

Melinda on Stitchin Fingers

Melissa on Stitchin Fingers

Merle's Blog

Mickey Allen on Stitchin Fingers

Million Little Stitches

Mindblogglings

Mitzi’s Folly

Mollydooker - Playing with Textiles

Moments of Quiet Embroidering my Tale

Mtneedle on Stitchin Fingers

Musing Crow Designs

My Creative Works

My Cuddly Quilt

Nancy Davenport on Stitchin Fingers

Needles-and-quilter-me

Nicki Lee's Raviolee Dreams

NMLaLace's photostream on Flickr

No Strings Attached

Northbrook Designs

Northviewau's Blog

Nupur on Stitchin Fingers

Obliquepoet's photostream on Flickr

OctoberLace's Holiday Stitching Notes

Oh, So Sweet!

Older Rose Gerry Krueger

Olga 43's photostream on flickr

Oma Rose on Stitchin Fingers

One Mad Tatter

One More Stitch

Only Crazy by Half

Pamela Joy on Stitchin Fingers

Passions Mireille

Pat @ flickr's photostream on flickr

Pat Upton on Stitchin Fingers

patou56-autourdufil

Patricia Hansen's photostream on Flickr

Peg's Place

Peltolaritva's photostream on flickr

Petitcoeuramoi - le blog de Sophie

Piece'n'Peace

Pieceful Threads

Pierres, papiers, ciseaux

Pigtales and Quilts

Pinpalanita's photostream on flickr

Pinyon Creek Stitchin

Plum Quilts

Poems of Lace & Embroidery

Positivity - Positiivisuutta

Pour Une Poignée de Boutons

Prairieknitter01's photostream on flickr

Princess Bubbles Creates

Project galore

Quilt, Knit, Run, Sew

Quilt Island

Quilterin

Quiltgal

Quilting and Life in General

Quilting is Blissful

Quilts and Other Stuff from Frances

Ramblings of a Fibre Junky

Random Thoughts from Abroad

Random Thoughts from Another Dilettante

Ranjana Craft Blog

Rays of Stitches

Reading and Stitching

Reclamation Textiles

Reels of cotton

Refashioned Threads

Regina Eser on Stitchin Fingers

Rengin Yazitas on Stitchin Fingers

Restoring Her Legacy

Ro the Quilter

Rose Mary's Needlework

Rosemary Hopkins on Stitchin Fingers

Rudaina Issa Sumrein on Stitchin Fingers

Sandra Bjorkman on Stitchin Fingers

Sandra Champion on Stitchin Fingers

Sandra Charles on Stitchin Fingers

Sandrasstudio’s Weblog

Sandy Hutchinson on Stitchin Fingers

Sane and Crazy Quilting

Sarah on Stitchin Fingers

Savitha's home

Seams Sew Sweet

Serendipity Ettie's photostream on flickr

Severine's photostream

Sew in Love

Sew Jenaissance

Sew Many Crafts Sew Little Time

Sew much progress

Sew Whats Next?

Sewing / Embroidery

Sewing it all together's photostream

Sharon Brodeuse on Stitchin Fingers

Shawkl

Sheep Rustling

Shirley Bligh on Stitchin Fingers

Smockery Smart Tasty Bits

Spare Moments Stitching

Spiel mit Textil

Spun Thread Comics and Crafts

Stella Bella Applique

Stitch 1 Peta

Stitch 4 Stitch Textiles

Stitch Along with Me

Stitch and Sow

Stitch Duchess Crazy Sane Quilting World

Stitch Lines

Stitch Traveler

Stitches and Whimsies

Stitchin' and Life in a Small Town

Stitchin' away

Stitching by a Cornish Sea Shore

Stitching, quilting and other things

Stitching with a Shimmy

Stitchings of an Army Wife

Stitchintime's photostream on Flickr

Stitching

Stitching Lady

Sudukc’s Needleart and Other Musings

Sue Duffy on Stitchin Fingers

Sue Utterback’s flickr site

Susan on Stitchin Fingers

Susan Bonilla on Stitchin Fingers

Susan Hemann

Susie Jarosz’s Stitchin Fingers page

Susie W's photostream on flickr

Suztats

Sweet Studio Slippers

Sweetpea Path

Sweetypie50

Taking one Stitch at a Time

Tactile Arts Play Group

Temari Addict Australia

Tenar’s Cave

Teri Kozeluh on Stitchin Fingers

Terry Decker on Stitchin Fingers

The Daily Stitch

The Fanatical Seamstress

TheeCoyote on Stitchin Fingers

Threads Across the Web

Today’s the Day - Sara’s Musings

Teresa Glenn on Stitchin Fingers

Travel Fibre and Thread

Tricia Hutchinson textile artist

Trying to Sneak a Stitch and a Few Other Things

Ty.Jecyka et patati et patata

Tyke Textiles

Uber Boo Boo

Up Too Late, as Usual ...

Une fille, des fils : L'artis-Anne

Unfocused

Uvi Kroizer on Stitchin Fingers

Whichstitches Witch's photostream on Flickr

Why Machine Embroidery

Whymsicallotus

Wild Roses and Blackberries

Wilma Goes Crazy

With Brush and Needle

With Glowing Hearts

With Needle and Thread I will Travel Far

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TAST 2012

Monday

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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010 at 10:05PM |

Anaslua2010'S Photostream

TAST stands for Take a Stitch Tuesday. Each week during 2010, on Tuesday I will take a stitch and suggest people experiment with it, push it a little and see what possibilities the stitch holds.

I ran the first series in 2007 You can find the list of the first TAST challenge here This year 2010, I decided to continue the challenge. It starts on March 2nd

The idea behind this challenge is to share. When you blog pictures or whenever you write about the TAST 2 challenge please link back here. It means that people can find out more about the challenge if they choose.

If you see something on someone’s blog and it provoked an idea that led you to try something different, please link to them. Apart from being good blog etiquette it is giving credit where it is due.

If working a challenge stitch every week sounds too much. It is OK. Last time some people simply worked the stitches that interested them. From my point of view I am happy to see people stitching and sharing what they learn.

If you are busy and want to swing in and out of the challenge as life dictates that is fine. I can't make it more guilt free than that. That said those that worked all the stitches in the last TAST have said to me that learnt a lot! Even stitches that did not initially appeal to them, they learnt from, discovered a way of working and sometimes were surprised to find they enjoyed them.

How to join in:

Each Tuesday I post a challenge stitch. You work an example or two. Photograph it, and put it on your flickr site or write about it on your blog (don’t forget to link back to here)

Then come back to the page that relates to that stitch and leave a comment to tell everyone where you have your photograph. Don’t forget to leave your blog address.

Skill level:

All skill levels are welcome but I will be working under the assumption that people know at least the basic stitches. Those that did not do TAST 1 check out the pdf file I released 12 Surface Stitches for Beginners and the first series of TAST stitches.

Other groups and networks

You can also share your explorations with other members on stitchin fingers group and the flickr TAST site

The 2010 Stitches

Week 1 Diamond Stitch
Week 2 Knotted Loop stitch
Week 3 Beaded Hedebo Edge
Week 4 Portuguese Border Stitch
Week 5 Knotted buttonhole stitch
Week 6 Buttonhole Eyelet Flower
Week 7 Rope Stitch
Week 8 Fancy Hem Stitch
Week 9 Raised herringbone band
Week 10 Cloud Filling
Week 11 Bullion Buttonhole
Week 12 Sorbello
Week 13 Raised Cup Stitch
Week 14 Buttonholed herringbone
Week 15 Ladder Stitch
Week 16 Italian knotted border stitch
Week 17 Sword Stitch
Week 18 Wave Stitch
Week 19 Up and Down Feather Stitch
Week 20 Buttonhole wheel cup
Week 21 Slipped detached chain stitch
Week 22 Triple Chain stitch
Week 23 Wave Chain Stitch
Week 24 Siennese Stitch
Week 25 Vandyke Stitch
Week 26 Chained cross stitch
Week 27 Woven Trellis stitch
Week 28 and 29 Raised chain stitch and variation
Week 30 Eastern Stitch
Week 31 Raised Closed Herringbone
Week 32 Shell Chain stitch
Week 33 Lock stitch
Week 34 Buttonholed double chain
Week 35 Spiked knotted cable chain
Week 36 Turkman Stitch
Week 37 Kiko's flower stitch
Week 38 Picot chain
Week 39 and 40 Buttonhole Picots
Week 41 Checkered or Magic Chain
Week 42 Woven Cross
week 43 and 44 Crossed and Plaited Feather Stitch

The 2010 challengers

A Crazy Quilt Adventure

A Movable Feast

A Puro Punto-Los Bordados (you can translate via Google Translate )

Abundantly Blessed

AlarTTex

Allie’s in Stitches

Btchywmyn's Photostream

Craftirn's Photostream

Cynthia Bonnell's Photostream

Dakini Dreams

Damasena1947's photostream

Dancing Blue Jays

DeaStrega's Photostream

Diva Deb

Eternal Arts and Crafts

Emerging

Ericann's photostream

Fat Quarter

Found Object Wearable Art By Colleen Anderson

Getting to Crazy

Greasyming

Hand Embroidery from Sadalas

Helinacq's photostream

Home Matters First

IMade it! and Riddhi Kapoor's photostream

La Flo Brode (you can translate via Google Translate )

Lady Jane's Journal

Laura Lea's photostream

Lins Arty Blobs

Lizozselcuk's photostream

Luna’s Baublebilities

Ma Boîte à Merveilles (you can translate via Google Translate )

Made To Treasure

Mainly Zaz

Marci H's photostream

Mariepinnyc's Photostream

MindBloggings

Miniknit's Photostream

Mis Proyectos y mas… (you can translate via Google Translate )

Misty’s Art

My First Bambina

Nidy Noddys Corner

Paddy's Daughter's photostream

Parkview 616

Peltolaritva's Photostream

Quilters Cottage Norfolk

Reading and stitching in IL

Sandra’s studios Weblog

Sew in Love

Sew Strong / Be Strong

Silver Sisters Studio Blog

Slave to Beads

SMG1955's photostream

S'MockerySm'Art TASTy Bits

Snow Days

Sonie's Embroidery World and Sadasonie's Photostream

Stitch Duchess Crazy and Sane Quilting World

Stitching bushwalker's photostream

Stitching Like Crazy

Stitchintime's Photostream

Studio 167's photostream

Summers of India

Sunshine Designs

Tactile Arts Play Group

Tardes de Costura (you can translate via Google Translate )

Threadance's Photostream

Time for Stitching or Sherry from MN's photostream

Travel, Fibre And Thread

Two Cents

UFO Queen

Valerie L.'s photostream

You can still join just join in each week swing by and leave a comment to tell us where your experiment is!

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Friday

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Stitch Explorer 2009

Friday, December 12, 2008 at 7:15AM |

Stitch Explorer for August

The first challenge is up!

Stitch Explorer January

Stitch Explorer February

Stitch Explorer March

Stitch Explorer April

Stitch Explorer May

Stitch Explorer for June is a catch up month

Stitch Explorer July

Stitch Explorer for September (catch up month)

Stitch Explorer for October

Stitch Explorer for November

Stitch Explorer for December

Link to the flickr Stitch Explorer group

Each month on the 15th of the month I post details of either a slightly unusual or lesser known stitch, or a style of embroidery. Please note I will be looking at embroidery styles as well as stitches. Sometimes it will be both. Sometimes it will be one or the other.

I think anyone who did or watched TAST quickly realised that although a stitch can be worked in a traditional manner if you look at the structure of the stitch and its use the stitch can be changed completely. Looking at how a stitch is constructed and adapting that makes for some interesting discoveries. The same holds true when we look at different embroidery styles. Looking at how and why a style might be worked in a particular manner and investigating that, makes many styles more versatile than people realise.

Each month I will provide readers with enough information to enable them to explore, investigate and or adapt the stitch or style. Readers can use the challenge stitch or style on any project they choose. This means people can adapt the challenge to their needs.

It will run it in the same way as my past challenges. In other words I will post and when people have responded on either a blog, flickr account, or some sort of photo space on the web, they swing back to the challenge page and leave their web address in the comments. This means people can visit, see what was done leave a comment on their blog. Since the idea is to share people really would need a place online to share it.

I want to credit Arlene with the title of the challenge.

If you plan to participate in a comment introduce your self and leave your name and blog/flickr address so people can visit you. Also remember to link back to Pin Tangle !

Note added later: Since the idea is to share what you stitch you will need somewhere to post photos such as a blog, a flickr account, or be on the stitching fingers community to join in. The reason is you need somewhere online to post photos is so people can see them and respond to them. These sorts of sites are free to set up. Of course you can just stitch along but with no interaction or conversation with others its a bit of a lonely way to do it.

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Sunday

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Stitch Along

Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 3:14PM |

This is an on going stitch along for members of the Hand Embroidery group in the Stitchin Fingers Textile Community.

The start date is July the 1st 2008

People can choose to work any stitch or any number of stitches from the list of stitches below and work on what ever project they choose. This is a project you can pick up as you have time and work at what ever pace is comfortable as there is no timetable as such.

For those who feel a bit over whelmed by the list you don’t have to stitch all of them! The idea is a stitch and share images of what you have done. All levels of stitchers are welcome and you can join in anytime.

To join in sign on to the Stitchin Fingers Textile Community (it’s free) and join the Hand Embroidery group. When you have stitched one of the embroidery stitches on the list leave a message in the group or on this blog if you want.

There is also a Flickr group associated with this stitch along

The list of stitches

Algerian Eye (regular, pulled and canvas eyelet stitch variations)
Arrowhead Stitch (regular and for canvas)
Arrowhead Stitch Threaded
Back Stitch
Back Stitch: Beaded
Back stitch: Diminishing pekinese stitch
Back stitch: Double Pekinese Stitch
Back Stitch: Festoon Stitch (pulled stitch)
Back stitch: Frost stitch (pulled)
Back Stitch: Honeycomb Filling (pulled stitch)
Back stitch: Laced Pekinese stitch
Back stitch: Pekinese Stitch
Back stitch: Pulled
Back stitch: Pulled double back stitch
Back stitch: Ringed Back Stitch (pulled stitch)
Back stitch: Threaded back stitch
Back stitch: Three sided edge stitch (pulled)
Back stitch: Whipped back stitch
Back stitched chain
Basque Knot stitch
Basque Stitch
Bonnet stitch
Bonnet stitch: Beaded
Bullion Knot
Burden stitch
Buttonhole Stitch
Buttonhole: Antwerp Edging fringed
Buttonhole: Antwerp Edging Stitch
Buttonhole: Antwerp Edging with a bead
Buttonhole: Bar
Buttonhole: Barb stitch
Buttonhole: Berwick Stitch
Buttonhole: Branched Buttonhole Bar
Buttonhole: Cast on stitch
Buttonhole: Closed buttonhole
Buttonhole: Crossed buttonhole
Buttonhole: Detached buttonhole filling
Buttonhole: Double Buttonhole Bar
Buttonhole: Double cast on stitch
Buttonhole: Double drizzle stitch
Buttonhole: Drawn buttonhole stitch (pulled stitch)
Buttonhole: Drizzle stitch
Buttonhole: Feather Stitch
Buttonhole: Filling
Buttonhole: Fly stitch
Buttonhole: Knotted buttonhole
Buttonhole: Knotted buttonhole band
Buttonhole: Knotted Feather Stitch
Buttonhole: Overlapping (also known as battlement stitch)
Buttonhole: Reversed buttonhole bar
Buttonhole: Top Knotted
Buttonhole: Triangular Buttonhole Stitch
Buttonhole: Up and down Buttonhole
Buttonhole: Wheel
Buttonhole: Whipped Buttonhole stitch
Buttonhole: with a bead
Buttonhole: with Picot
Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Alternating barred chain
Chain stitch: Beaded chain stitch
Chain Stitch: Berry stitch (Detached Double Chain)
Chain Stitch: Cable Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Coral stitch
Chain stitch: Cornered Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Crested chain
Chain Stitch: Detached chain stitch (Daisy Stitch
Chain Stitch: Double Cable Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Double Chain Stitch
Chain stitch: Feathered Chain stitch
Chain Stitch: Heavy chain
Chain Stitch: Knotted Cable Chain stitch
Chain Stitch: Linked Double Chain
Chain Stitch: Long Armed Detached Chain
Chain Stitch: Open Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Oyster stitch
Chain Stitch: Raised Chain Band
Chain Stitch: Reverse Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Rosette chain (very Tricky)
Chain Stitch: Spanish feather
Chain Stitch: Spiked Knotted Cable Chain
Chain Stitch: Threaded Open Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Twisted Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Waved Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Wheatear stitch
Chain Stitch: Whipped Chain Stitch
Chain Stitch: Whipped Double Chain
Chain Stitch: ZigZag Chain Stitch
Chained Fly Stitch
Chequer Filling (Pulled Thread Work )
Chevron Stitch
Chevron stitch: Beaded chevron
Chevron stitch: Chevron stitch with a single bead
Chevron stitch: Half Chevron stitch
Chevron stitch: Knotted Chevron
Chevron stitch: Pagoda stitch
Cobbler stitch (Pulled)
Colonial Knot
Couching
Cretan Stitch:
Cretan Stitch: Alternating Cretan Stitch
Cretan Stitch: beaded
Cretan Stitch: Closed Cretan Stitch
Cretan Stitch: Knotted Cretan Stitch
Cretan Stitch: Open Beaded Cretan Stitch
Cretan Stitch: Open Cretan Stitch
Cretan Stitch: Tied creten
Cretan Stitch: with a bead
Crossed Stitches: Broad Cross Stitch
Crossed Stitches: Chequer Filling (Pulled Thread Work )
Crossed Stitches: Detached Square Filling (Pulled Thread Work)
Crossed Stitches: Diagonal Broad Cross
Crossed Stitches: Diagonal Cross Filling (Pulled Thread Work)
Crossed Stitches: Diagonal Cross Stitch
Crossed Stitches: Diagonal English Cross (Canvas)
Crossed Stitches: Diagonal Raised Band (Pulled Thread Work)
Crossed Stitches: Double Cross stitch (Canvas Work)
Crossed stitches: Double Leviathan (Canvas)
Crossed Stitches: Dutch Stitch (Canvas Work)
Crossed Stitches: English Cross (Canvas)
Crossed Stitches: Ermine Stitch
Crossed stitches: Half Rhodes (Canvas)
Crossed stitches: Italian Cross stitch (Canvas)
Crossed stitches: Leviathan (Canvas)
Crossed Stitches: Long arm Cross stitch
Crossed stitches: Montenegrin (Canvas)
Crossed stitches: Norwich stitch (Canvas)
Crossed stitches: Oblong Cross (Canvas)
Crossed stitches: Oblong Cross with back stitch (Canvas)
Crossed Stitches: Open Trellis Filling (Pulled Thread Work)
Crossed stitches: Rhodes (Canvas)
Crossed stitches: Star stitch (Canvas)
Crossed stitches: Smyrna Cross (Canvas)
Crossed stitches: Rice Stitch (Canvas)
Eastern stitch
Fence of Bugles (beading stitch)
Fly Stitch:
Fly stitch: Beaded fly stitch
Fly stitch: Chained Fly Stitch
Fly Stitch: Closed fly stitch
Fly Stitch: Knotted Fly Stitch
Fly stitch: Threaded Fly stitch
Four Sided Stitch (pulled stitch) and other directions here
French Knot
Ghiordes Knot
Greek Cross filling (pulled)
Herringbone stitch
Herringbone Stitch: Beaded herringbone stitch
Herringbone Stitch: closed herringbone
Herringbone Stitch: Double Herringbone stitch
Herringbone Stitch: Herringbone tied with a bead
Herringbone Stitch: Interlaced
Herringbone Stitch: knotted herringbone
Herringbone Stitch: Maltese cross
Herringbone Stitch: Pulled
Herringbone Stitch: Tied Herringbone
Indian Ground (pulled)
Jessica stitch (canvas)
Long and Short stitch
Norwich stitch
Nuns Stitch
Open Trellis Filling (Pulled Thread Work)
Outline Stitch
Palestrina stitch
Palestrina stitch: Reversed Palestrina stitch
Palestrina stitch: Triple Palestrina stitch
Petal stitch (Canvas)
Pinwheel Stitch (canvas)
Rice Stitch
Rococco (Canvas)
Satin Stitch:
Satin stitch: Padded
Scroll Stitch
Shisha Stitch
Sorbello Stitch
Split Stitch:
Stem Stitch:
Stem Stitch: Portuguese stem
Stem Stitch: Rope stitch
Straight stitch: Double running stitch laced
Straight stitch: Laced running stitch
Straight stitch: Running stitch (including darning)
Straight stitches: Basket stitch (pulled)
Straight stitches: Brighton Stitch (canvas)
Straight stitches: Byzantine (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Cashmere (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Chess board filling (pulled)
Straight stitches: Crossed Cushion (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Cushion (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Diagonal Leaf stitch (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Encroaching Gobelin (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Florentine (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Gobelin (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Hungarian (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Japanese Darning
Straight stitches: Jaquard (canvas)
Straight stitches: Leaf stitch (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Moorish (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Mosaic (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Oriental (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Parisian (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Pulled Satin Stitch (Pulled)
Straight stitches: Ray stitch (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Scotch (Canvas)
Straight stitches: Triangle Stitch (canvas)
Straight stitches: Upright Gobelin (Canvas)
Twisted lattice band
Vandyke Filling
Vandyke stitch
Velvet stitch
Whipped spiders wheel
Woven Spiders Wheel
Woven: Needlweaving picot (forms petals and leave)
Woven: Raised cup

Needlework books online

The approach to stitching has change but the technical information in these books are still good.

Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont is online as part of Project Gutenburg. You can download the whole book from the site for free it is an excellent resource

Handbook of Embroidery by L. Higgin contains standard stitches but also information on goldwork and quite a good section on couching and diaper patterns.

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie covers all key areas of Embroidery. It is a classic but also one of the most clearest illustrated stitch books of its time. Don’t miss this one as it is very useful.

Art in Needlework by Lewis F Day and Mary Buckle is a 326 page book published in 1907. This book is free to download from the Internet Archive site. You can download it in PDF format

A Book of Fancy Designs for Ornamenting Oriental Work. (PDF file) by Mary Haehnlen is a small book that should not be missed by crazy quilters as it contains diagrams of 65 crazy quilting stitches. This free ebook comes the Antique pattern Library.

The Cult of the Needle by Flora Klickmann is a hidden gem I discovered at the Internet archive. It is a 134 pages of styles and types of embroidery including drawn work, hardanger, Berlin work, and Huck darning

Embroidery Stitches by M. E. Wilkinson is another gem which covers 200 stitches.

Ladies’ Guide in Needlework published by W. A. Leary & Co. in 1850. The 193 pages of this book have been divided into 3 PDF files which can be downloaded from the On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics (the download is found half way down this page)

Beeton’s Book of Needlework is also on the Project Gutenburg site and can be downloaded free. There is a section on embroidery and a section on “Berlin” work which covers many canvas work stitches

The Lady’s Manual of Fancy-Work by Matilda Pullan published in 1859 is also available at the On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics. It contains a mix of needlework arts including beading, and Berlin work (canvas stitches)

For drawn thread work see Part I - Drawn Thread Embroidery by Therese Dillmont (PDF) and Part II - Drawn Thread Embroidery by Therese Dillmont (PDF) both supplied by the Antique Pattern Library

Many of these free resources are presented as PDF files which means you need Acrobat Reader to open these files. You can download a free reader on the Acrobat site.

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Sunday

Nov092008

Take it Further Guidelines

Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 3:08PM |

Please leave your Progress reports on the relevant post. Each month’s challenge is listed below. I have closed comments on this page because it was getting too large to load.

The Challenge for January

The Challenge for February

The Challenge for March

The Challenge for April

The Challenge for May

The Challenge for June

The Challenge for July

The Challenge for August

The Challenge for September

The Challenge for October

The Challenge for November and the page to leave your progress reports

Guidelines

This challenge grew out of the Take a stitch Tuesday challenge run in 2007. “Take it Further” aims to apply textile technique skills to design. The challenge will run all year in 2008.

The Challenge

On the 1st of each month I will post a concept or design theme. The challenge is to take the idea, develop it and push it towards a resolved design during that month. In other words you interpret the idea and apply it to fiber or paper.

Every month there will be two options.

The second option will be a colour scheme or a design element like a shape, to develop into a resolved design. This means that if you don’t like the concept you can work the colour scheme or if you don’t like the colour scheme you can work with the concept. Or you can work with both.

The actual project you design can be any thing, in any medium or format you choose. It can be a crazy quilt block, a postcard, a journal quilt, a piece of embroidery, a sampler, a fabric book page or whatever sparks your imagination. It can also be visual journal work. In other words pages spreads of designs worked in a visual journal will be seen as a valid entry and included as one of the formats acceptable for the challenge.

Blog or flick your response

What ever you choose to do, blog the development of the idea through the month (preferably weekly) and leave a comment on the appropriate post (listed above) with your blog address so that people can visit your site and see what you have done. The flickr group for the Take it Further Design Challenge is here.

If you don’t have a blog or flickr account

If you don’t yet have a site to post images to you will need to set up one. If you do not have a blog you will need at least a flickr account or somewhere to have your images on the web. If you don’t have one go to http://flickr.com. They are free and easy to use and for all those flickr folks a flickr group is established called Take it Further Design Challenge

For a free blog service try http://wordpress.com. It is free and relatively easy to set up with good help files.

Link Back

Please help spread the word, blog about the challenge with a link here so people can find it.