Take a Stitch Tuesday week 45
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 5:35AM | Sharon B | 11 Comments | in Challenges, Hand Embroidery, Needlework, Take a Stitch Tuesday As you can see I am back from our little break in New Zealand and Jerry has got some trip notes up before me. I will write more and post some photos later but for now its time to announce this weeks stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday. This week I propose people explore Pekinese stitch. The basic stitch can be found in my stitch dictionary here. Pekinese comes in a few variations so I thought I would include two of them as well.
Double Pekinese is the first variety. As with regular Pekinese work foundation rows of back stitches in a fairly loose manner because the threading will tighten them. Instead of working 1 row of back stitches work 2.
A second contrasting thread is then threaded as illustrated. To create a neat textured line, tighten slightly after each threaded loop is created.
As you move from stitch to stitch do not pass the needle through the ground fabric.Use a blunt ended tapestry needle to avoid splitting the foundation stitches. Experiment with contrasts of texture and weight threads. Contrasts such as thick thin, bright dull and colour all work well.
When worked double Pekinese stitch creates an interesting heavy braided line which can follow a curve well. You can also extend this stitch by doing the same thing with 3, rows or as many rows of back stitch you like.
Laced Pekinese is a stitch that has a great braid like texture yet unlike many of the heavy embroidery stitches it can follow a curved line well.
First work two lines of between two to five rows of back stitches and lace them as you would Pekinese stitch or double Pekinese stitch. In a heavier thread lace the loops pf the Pekinese stitches as illustrated.
I have illustrated this stitch using two parallel rows of foundation stitches but these do not have to be running side by side they can be wavy and move towards and away from each other. This makes the stitch very versitile and interesting. I hope you enjoy it!
As you can see Pekinese is an interesting stitch with loads of possible uses. I hope you enjoy it!
That’s it for this week. Remember to swing by and leave a comment preferably on this page, so that people can follow the link and see what you have done. There is a Take a stitch Tuesday flickr group which you can browse
For anyone enjoying this challenge or who enjoyed the Sumptuous surfaces class, you will possibly enjoy the Develop a Personal Library of Stitches starting tomorrow. Crazy quilters will be pleased to know that the Encrusted Crazy Quilting is being offered again starting on November 9.
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Reader Comments (11)
and here I thought Pekinese stitch was worked over a chain stitch! or maybe I have the name wrong... but I know I've worked the same lacing stitch over a chain stitch.
can't wait to play with this one; for some reason it is really firing my imagination! maybe I'm just ready to get back to handstitching :-)
Sharon,
I´d like to talk to you by e-mail. Thanks.
I had fun with this one.
http://alteringthoughts.blogspot.com/ and Flickr
Sharon I have loaded my Pekinese stitch onto my blog.
I rather like this stitch and can see me using it in the future.
Not sure I have done the laced bit properly but lets say I have used creative licence on it.
Doreen
http://doreeng.blogspot.com/
Welcome home Sharon and thanks for a lovely stitch this week. I hadn't tried it before and this was just the right time to do so.
Maureen
http://crazyqstitcher.wordpress.com/
I was very lazy, and have posted a picture from the PLOS course.
To be seen at http://sharonb.wordpress.com/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/verobirdie/1981184804/
Here are my weeks 42, 43 and 44.
http://www.isetegija.net/index.php?ind=blog&op=home&idu=2796&singlepost=22328
I liked the Pekinese stitch best, will use it a lot!
Thanks, Freddy.
Late again but I posted my pekinese stitch on my blog last night and then fell into bed. I really liked the idea of this one but after a week of excitement was too tired to explore it much more.
http://backvalleyseasons.blogspot.com
Loved this stitch! http://faffingabout.blogspot.com/2007/11/tast-pekinese-stitch.html
Hi Sharon, I've just posted my Pekinese Stitch to my blog. I really enjoyed this one and look forward to using it in my cq. You can find it here:
http://normasneedlez.blogspot.com
so nice of you for giving us this ideas...i am really happy to learn all this...