Thus far for Cretan Stitch seams on my sampler I have recorded samples from my teaching notes, some from Sharon’s TAST sampler, the stitches that I did for TAST and a couple that I have thought of along the way…
Today my next port of call to find Cretan Stitch variations was to type Cretan into my blog search engine (top left corner of this page) and scrolled through the results to find a few more…the first of these is Detail 142, I like the way the beads work on this variation….I have stitched the cretan with 3 strands of cotton floss, the fly stitch trim is 2 strands of cotton floss,
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 This seam is a copy of Detail 118, which was one of my Cretan stitch Variations, I also did it on one of the blocks on mum’s memory quilt (Detail176).
The seam is 2 rows of Cretan stitch partially overlapped, when working the second row I passed the thread under the first row before doing each of the down facing stitches, doing this makes the rows interlock nicely.
thread is 3 strands of cotton floss.
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This Cretan Stitch seam trimmed with Fly Stitch is a copy of Detail 120 which was one of my take a stitch tuesday Cretan Stitch seams. stitched with 3 strands of cotton floss.
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When I was doing the seams where the length of the Cretan Staitch arms are varied I thought what if I vary the spacing between the arms of Cretan Stitch…I stitched the seam with 3 strands of cotton floss and in the wider spaces I added little flowers made up of 2 detached chain stitches and a Bullion knot.
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The top seam is another seam from Sharon’s sampler that varies the length of the Cretan Stitch arms…thread is 3 strands of cotton floss.
When I finished the top seam I thought that it would work well to make a scolloped edge too….Thread is 3 strands of a varigated cotton floss.
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Australia 2020 is for the Australian Governments Australia 2020 Summit, held in Canberra this weekend…I had been debating with myself as to wether I would record this event on my sampler or not, when A friend asked me if I was going to, her question said to me that if she was asking the question then it is the sort of event that she thought was worth recording.
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Detail 620 kept jumping out and telling me that those big spaces should have something in the centres, so I have added beaded flowers to the detail.
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This stitch is another one of the variations on Sharon’s sampler, varying the length of the arms…On this variation the lengths of the Cretan stitch arms are only varied on one side which I trimmed with beads.
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This stitch started as one of the variations on Sharon’s sampler varying the length of the arms…
I didn’t allow enough difference in the length of the long and short arms and with the stitchs widely spaced the pattern formed by the long and short arms couldn’t be discerned…
I have always said that if you don’t like a seam then work it until you do, so with that in mind I did a second row over the top of the first one which reduced the space between the stitches which made it look a little better but the pattern was still ill defined.
To pick the pattern out more I used green thread to do french knots on the long arms and burgundy for the short arms with additional knots in the centres…To further define the difference in the lengths of the arms I did the green knots at the end of the arm making it a little longer while keeping the short arms the same length by covering the end of the stitch with the knot….and I like the final effect.
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The Top seam is Cretan Stitch with long arms and narrow space between the arms and trimmed with beads as I did on my teaching sample…thread is 2 strands of cotton floss.
While I was stitching the top seam I thought that if I can do very long arms then I can do very short arms on the stitch…The Bottom row is the same width and same spacing between the arms as the top seam but has very short arms on the stitch creating very deep Vs, making for a visually very different look to the first seam…O have also arranged the beads in a different pattern just for variety…Thread is size 5 cotton pearl.
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