Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 352: Battlement Stitch

The Battlement Stitch, today's new stitch, must not be confused with the Battlement Filling Stitch or the Battlement Couching Stitch. Those latter names are for a laid stitch pattern in which long straight stitches are laid horizontally and vertically, then couched down. We will eventually learn it, but for today, let's concentrate on the Battlement Stitch. It's easy-peasy, just stagger Buttonhole Stitches.

I found it in Pintangle's Stitch Dictionary.

Please also have a look at my photos:

Change the colour and add a new

row below, offset by one or a few holes.

Add another row in a different colour.

OR, work every row in the same colour.

Homework:

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Friday Homework for Lesson 351: Twisted Chain Stitch

 For every stitch I add to Sunday Stitch School, I learn something other than the stitch itself. 

Last week, I understood why the Twisted Chain Stitch felt so familiar. In 2012 I learned it while taking part in TAST, Take A Stitch Tuesday. The stitch was #12 Barred and Alternating Barred Chain, where the 'arm' is long and sticking out like the spike in barbed wire. 

This week, I discovered that when you make the Twisted Chain Stitches short and place them close together, you get another stitch - the Rope Stitch, which was also a TAST stitch, #110. Here is a link to the blogpost of May 5th 2014.

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Now for my homework.

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Red Kimono Silk Scribble Cloth

The last four stitches would technically be Barred Chain Stitch, wouldn't they?

WIPW - Saddling the Horse

Wow, how fast can a week go? Time and its various speeds never cease to amaze me! Here is my Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Hexablooms

I didn't work on the flimsy itself,  but made a few new hexagon blocks and then basted more of those white 'in-between-the-blocks' hexagon pieces.

The Year of the Horse

I managed to saddle the horse with a colourful seat. Can you see that I made use of a recent Sunday Stitch School stitch? The Over-Under Cross Stitch.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 351: Twisted Chain Stitch

Let's start this set of five new stitches with a stitch that should have been included LONG ago - the Twisted Chain Stitch.

I was convinced that I had already worked it on my blog while doing Take A Stitch Tuesday or in the Sunday Stitch School series. It turned out that in 2012, I used it in TAST #12 Barred and Alternating Barred Stitch, as it is the first part of those stitches, but I never used it as a stitch in its own right. It is high time to rectify that!

You can find the instructions at Pintangle or the video at Needle 'n Thread.

Here is my Twisted Chain Stitch photo tutorial:

Homework:

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