Sunday, January 22, 2012

Feather Stitch for TAST

For week 3, feather stitch was the challenge. For those of you who haven't read other posts about TAST (Take a Stitch Tuesday), it is a year-long challenge offered by the very talented and generous Sharon Boggons (www.pintangle.com). Each week on her blog, Pin Tangle, Sharon offers a tutorial on a new embroidery stitch. The challenge is for beginning stitchers to master the stitch and for more experienced stitchers to try to get creative with the stitch. Being left-handed, I had always wanted to learn more than the few basic stitches I had learned in childhood, but could never figure out how to adapt them since books and tutorials were generally for right-handed stitchers. Thanks to women like Judith Montano and Valerie Stanton, left-handers now have excellent resources at their disposal.

I have used feather stitch fairly often in my stitching, but did some practice on my doodle cloth before adding a few seam embellishments on my miniature crazy quilt sampler.




7 comments:

  1. That is so gorgeous......thanks for keeping me inspired to try this!!!!

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  2. Beautifil stitching (and beautiful blocks).

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  3. Thank you so much! I consider myself a beginning stitcher, so I'm pleased just to master each stitch.

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  4. So delicate and pretty--I wish I had the talent and patience for embroidery. ;-)

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  5. Very nice. Kathy http://kathysnest32.wordpress.com/

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  6. OMGoodness that is so pretty... Your stitching is fabo.. Nice work Arlene.. WOW I simply love that crazy quilt.
    Hugs
    Susan

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