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Year: 2015

Take a Stitch Tuesday Rerun – Week 1 Fly Stitch

Sharon Boggon has been running the Take A Stitch Tuesday (aka TAST) challenge on and off since 2007 and I’ve been wanting to join in for just as long. Well it only took me 8 years.

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Here is my sampler for week 1, Fly Stitch.

Fly stitch hand embroidery sampler

I’ve decided to work my samplers roughly 20cm or 8″ square and just stitch whatever takes my fancy on whatever fabric I feel like. It’s all very technical! I’m thinking of backing each one with plain fabric and using them to practice various edgings on. I really like the idea of a box of sampler doilies to browse whenever I’m looking for an idea.

This week I concentrated on borders and layering, using lots of different textures stitched on a scrap of striped cotton.

Week 2’s stitch is buttonhole. I haven’t decided whether to use some evenweave linen or a scrap of Japanese rayon(silk?) that was in the same scrap bag as the striped cotton.

Some links:
TAST on Facebook
Sharron’s TAST FAQ on her website, Pintangle.
Free vintage stitch book downloads.

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Maintenance Update & a Ravelry Plea

I’m pretty sure I’ve fixed all of the missing patterns from the wiki. They were all there, just with the wrong file names/links.

Also, I’ve noticed that a lot of visitors are posting to Ravelry when they find an error in my transcriptions. If you could also let me know here on the website I’d really appreciate it. I fix any errors that I find out about. Unfortunately, because I’m not the designer of the vintage patterns I post, I don’t get an automatic notification on Ravelry of people’s comments and it takes a REALLY long time to check over 1000 patterns. Especially when a lot of them don’t have Knitting-and.com as the source other than in the link to the transcribed/updated versions.

Thanks, and please let me know if you find any more missing patterns!

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