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This week's stitch was a fixed-base needle-woven picot stitch: and here is the "page" for October which includes the Beaded Hebedo Edge, Knotted Loop Stitch. Italian Knotted Loop Border, Buttonhole Wheel Cup and the fixed-base needle-woven picot:

This week, I caught up on the pale blue fan stitches in the border for "Birds of a Feather": Completed the latest assignments of Color Trough the Ages and TAST 2012, picked fabrics for the November Color Palette Challenge: and started on the last 13

The finished piece is 15" X 18" on 24 ct. pale blue Congress cloth (24 ct), using various ThreadWorX, DMC (cotton, rayon *and* metallic) and Carrie's Creations (Black Cherry) threads and several shades of Kreinik #8 and #12 braid. The color scheme is

This week it was the Open-base Needle-woven Picot stitch --- not a whole lot different in execution from the previous week's Closed-base Needle-woven Picot stitch: A wider base is all, I think. Here is mine:

This is a Hillcroft House design --- a name shield based on interpretation of the meaning and origins of a name:

In the past week, there have been a few "completions"! The first, and biggest, is "Kimono - Revisited" which is now ready for the framers! The second was the weekly TAST - the open base needlewover picot stitch. The third was the Hillcroft House

Week 46's stitch is the Checkered, or Magic, Chain stitch. Here is mine, forming a stem for my open-based needle-woven picot stitch flower. I used GAST "Harvest Basket" and Forest Glade" as my alternating colors... I did try to be creative and use

In addition to week forty-six of Take a Stitch Tuesday (the checkered chain), I stitched on a new start this week --- a Michael Powell piece called "Home Sampler" (I Had a case of startitis): and a little on "Birds of a Feather" (Note the lazy daisy

As promised, I worked almost exclusively on "Birds of a Feather" and its border speciality stitches. In all 288 individual detached chain stitches (AKA Lazy Daisies): Next step - metallic stitches in the border --- Just couldn't face that last night so

The Portuguese Border Stitch. Kind of fun to do, and fast. I have to watch my tension, and play with curves and the like, but I think this one will become one of my preferred seam treatments! I used two kinds of threads in this piece... #5 perle in a

In addition to this week's TAST and last weekends IH&SW, I put in a few days stitching on Michael Powell's "Home Sampler": Otherwise it was Thanksgiving week so that meant prep time of a day, the actual day and a day of clean-up after... COuple that

Lesson 9 in the "Color Through The Ages" class is all about colors from the "Mod Era" of the 1960s! This twinchie is stitched using DMC blanc, 307, 792, 906, 970, 3607, and metallic 5283 threads and was completed November 24, 2012:

This is the "Beaver Moon" and I have made the following progress since the last full moon... What did I do this past "moon"? FInishes were • the Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches: Fixed base woven picot, Open base woven picot, checkered chain,

Week 48's stitch is the Arrowhead stitch, something I had done before not knowing it had a name! Anyway, here is is, on the completed November "page" along with the open base woven picot, the checkered chain, and the Portuguese border.