Thursday, January 26, 2012

TAST Week 4: Cretan Stitch

Cretan stitch is one of the first I learned and it remains a favorite. I usually use an open cretan stitch, but have been playing with the closed version as well as echoing cretan stitches. After a few practice stitches on my doodle cloth, I embellished a few seams on my CQ sampler with this old favorite.

 Below I combined cretan stitch with detached chain and fly stitch, then worked some beads into it.



12 comments:

  1. You are so talented , my grandma had this kind of patience... I don't have any kind of hobbies other than play piano. This one astonishes me to have the time and to do such intricate works of art.

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  2. Your blocks just glow - a truly beautiful crazy quilt.
    Diane - yarngoddess

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  3. LOVELY. The colors you have chosen to work with are wonderful.
    Kathy

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  4. that is going to be so pretty when you are finished... You are getting my juices going to start one myself.
    Hugs
    SUsan

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  5. Beautiful work on CQ ! You seem to be a cretan stitch's specialist

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  6. Your different attempts are gorgeous !

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  7. Lovely stitching. Love the leaves with the beads and the combination with fly and detached chain stitches. Really interesting.

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  8. Lovely! Love the color palette of your blocks.

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  9. Hi! I love what you did with the cretan and chain and fly together! And the beads add such a lovely texture too. Well done :)

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