Carol Harper's articles with the keyword: TAST2014

  • Take a Stitch Tuesday - Stitches ##138 and 139

    - 14 Nov 2014
    ##138 and 139 - Barb and Beaded Barb stitches
    This week's stitches were the Barb Stitch and the Beaded Barb Stitch. I found this stitch easy to do and like the final look of it as well.

  • 2014 - Staying Connected, Week Thirty-six

    - 10 Sep 2014
    ## 129 and 130 - Lock and Double Lock stitches
    Not a lot accomplished since I reported in on WIPocalypse on Monday... Just the two Tale a Stitch Tuesday stitches ## 129 and 130: Lock stitch (on teh right) and Double Lock stitch (on the left). That makes another page for my "Stitch Journal" (stitches are # 118 - Beaded Buttonhole Stitch, #119 - Woven Trellis Stitch, #120 - Double Herringbone , #121 - Twisted Lattice Stitch, #122 - Chained Bar, #123 - Woven Chained Bar, #124 - Closed Herringbone, #125 - Beaded Herringbone, #126 - A…

  • 2014 - Staying Connected, Week Thirty-five

    - 03 Sep 2014
    #128 - Interlaced Up-and-Down Buttonhole stitch
    I didn't stay connected at all this past week. I spent the weekend working on challenge #10 for the Compendium of Curiosities #3 Challenge. I even read a book (!!!): the latest Deborah Crombie Inspector Kincaid novel (and it was wonderful!) and started another - a Victorian era historical mystery Called "The Yard". I think my stitching mojo is suffering from county fair aftershock. Nothing appeals to me in my project bag, I don't want to start something new and... so I didn't stitch a thing…

  • Take a Stitch Tuesday Stitches ## 116 and 117

    - 15 Jun 2014
    P6130002
    These stitches are the Beaded Vandyke and the Bullion Vandyke. I know I can do Vandyke. I've done it before in TAST and I did it here: But ask me to put beads on it and it goes all wonky: and as for bullion stitches on it (especially since I hate bullion stitches - I think my fingers are just to big and clumsy to handle all those winds around the needle), even wonkier still: Still, I completed this assignment (with a lot of grumbling, to be sure - ever try to frog a bulli…

  • Take a Stitch Tuesday - another stitch completed

    - 13 Mar 2014
    #103 - Beaded Butterfly Chain Stitch
    The latest stitch assigned was #103, the Beaded Butterfly Chain Stitch: And it's completion has resulted in the completion of a new page of stitch samples: The stitches on this page include the Linked Chain and Beaded Linked Chain stitches, Shell Chain and Beaded Shell Chain stitches, Eastern and Beaded eastern stitches, Triangular Buttonhole and Beaded Triangular Buttonhole stitches and the Beaded Butterfly Chain stitch.