Friday
Jun152007
A New Stitch Variety?
Friday, June 15, 2007 at 7:29AM | Sharon B | 3 Comments | in Challenges, Crazy quilting, Hand Embroidery, Needlework, Take a Stitch Tuesday I think Elizabeth of Quieter Moments has done it again! As part of the Take a Stitch Tuesday Challenge she has come up with a variation of wheatear stitch that I have not seen. Take a look at her sample half way down on this post. If anyone has this stitch documented or if they have it documented as a variation of arrow stitch could you please let Elizabeth know? It looks such a handy and easily worked variation of wheatear that I am going to start incorporating it in my work too!
On a slightly different note Allison Aller has posted a tutorial on piecing a crazy quilt block . If you are new to crazy quilting and want to make a block do check it out as Allison has explained the process very clearly.
Reader Comments (3)
Jaqueline Enthoven has a similar looking stitch in The Stitches of Creative Embroidery (I have the revised and enlarged edition from 1987). It is called slipped detached chain or slipped detached chain filling -- in her version the chain stitch is completed first and then the side legs are added. She uses two stitches for the side legs. Anne Butler, The Arco Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches, has similar stitches with the same name but she uses a single stitch for the "legs" added after the chain stitch is completed so her stitch looks less like Elizabeth's. Neither is exactly the same.
Jenny
Yep there is a variety that is called Tete de Boeuf stitch which Helen reminded me of but its not the same - Tete de Boeuf stitch is called bulls head or bull stitch in English - but the prongs are in a different way -
Also wanted to say Enthovens book is great for tracking varieties - it may look a bit plane but boy it has some info in it!
Sharon,
Have a look here
http://deepashome.blogspot.com/
I think Elizabeth's variation has some similarity to this,although not exactly the same.
Deepa