Here I am again with anotherTake A Stitch Tuesday sampler. This week's "assignment" was Wheatear stitch, which is new to me. Not difficult at all, but I have to admit I was not terribly inspired or creative. Just too much else going on in my life this week I guess.
Because the stitch can look very much like shafts of wheat, and because my daughter is off to Alberta today, I chose "wheat-y" colors to work with. My stitching is fairly simplistic, I just did the basic stitch, then stacked, wove and did a sort of mirror image of the stitch. I think my last row is my favourite- the palest peach color- simple wheatear with an extra straight stitch added on each side, and then beaded. I think this has great potential for use along a CQ seam. Done in the right colors with perhaps a few more straight stitches added, it could almost look like Cleome - an annual I plant each year to fill in spots in my perennial beds...
Peace,
Linda
"Act the way you'd like to be, and soon you'll be the way you act." ~ Leonard Cohen
7 comments:
Thanks for the close-up shots. Your stitches look great!
Your work is always so neat and tidy. Nice!
Your stitching looks very good with the wheaty colors you chose, Linda.
i do like the presentation of the sampler as a whole and then a few close-ups. your stitch work is so well done~!
i found the wheatear stitch to be a fun stitch to do once i got started and actually did it right.
i began to vary the lengths of the second catch (on the detached chain part of the stitch) and got some nice organic results. i'll have a shot of the work on my blog in a couple of days . . . better late than never, i guess.
:-)
libbyQ
Your last row is really beautiful and I like the over all look too.
Gorgeous!!! That light colored row is my fav too!!!
Ooooo...I love how it looks when you alternate the stitches like the last sample!
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