Today I have moved onto the next stitch, Take a stitch Tuesday Week 3 which was Detached Chain Stitch….All stitches look different when stitched with different threads and I have always found the look of Detached Chain to be very varied when done with different threads, to illustrate this I have done a line of short and a line of long detached chain stitches worked in a variety of threads.
From left to right the threads are…red silk, maroon wool, green Silk buttonhole twist, yellow Linen, Black Cotton Broder, green Rayon, Gold Metalic, 1 strand, 2 strands, 3 strands, 4 strands, 5 strands and 6 strands of cotton floss, Cotton, Ribbon Floss, silk Ribbon, size 5 cotton pearl, size 3 cotton pearl.
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Today is Canberra Day…A little history, The site to build Australias Capital city was chosen in 1908 and was named Canberra in 1913 making today our 95th year as a city.
At the start of the seam I have done a stylized Black Mountain Tower, it is a telecommunications tower built in the late 1970s and a significant Canberra Landmark…I have stitched the tower with wool thread because the site of Canberra was sheep farms before the city was built…
The words are stem stitch done with 2 strands of cotton floss.
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Another buzy day, including such dreaded jobs as defrosting and cleaning out the fridge but all the work has been worth it because the house looks good and even feels a little organized…My son arrived this evening and it has been lovely to see him.
I have used this idea before with straight stitches but it works just as well with buttonhole stitch…I have used a fine thread (2 strands cotton floss) so that I could use a small enough needle to fit throught the beads which are threaded on as you work the buttonhole stitch…As I worked the seam the black beads were looking a bit flat so I added the red beads to give the seam a little zing…The beads move along the stitches and are fun to play with.
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I am feeling better today, much better, much, much better….With help from my sister we have got most of my to do list, done And managed to get a couple of rows of stitching done ( I stayed in bed and stitched while listening to the garden show on the radio.
On the top row I have added 2 more buttonhole stitch fill patterns for needlelace both done with size 5 cotton pearl thread.
And on the bottom row I celebrate International Womens Day, the first International Womens Day I can remember was about 1976 and I associate it with my mother who was visiting me in Canberra at the time, somewhere I still have some posters from the days events…I wrote the words on the fabric with a 2B pencil and stem stitched over the pencil line with 2 strands of cotton floss.
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