New Stitch Monday With a Twist – Week 10

My hunt has continued for stitches that I have never done and I found a really interesting stitch for the letter ‘N” on the Raymond Crawford “NEEDLEPOINT” canvas.   Years ago, I joined a club called “Building Blocks for Needlepoint” by Stitch Play Designs and as I was looking through the pamphlets, I found this stitch called Virginia’s Stitch.    I continued looking and I found the same stitch in “A Father B Sampler – Stitches for the 21^st Century”.  It was meant to be that I would do this stitch.  I used Splendor S910 (4 strands for 18 count and 6 strands for 13 count) shown pink on diagram and Entice E265 shown blue on diagram.   I did need 2 cards of the Entice.   I really liked the way the stitch turned out.  Play around with different threads and or try using 2 different colors to see the different effects that you will be able to achieve.

I hope you can add this to your new stitches for 2021.  Give it a try!

Happy Stitching – Stephanie

New Stitch Monday With a Twist – Week 9

This week’s stitch went through a lot of changes.  When I started stitching the letter “I” on the Raymond Crawford “NEEDLEPOINT’ canvas the original stitch that I was going to use was a Rice stitch variation.  As I was working on it, I really didn’t like the way it looked.  I had the base 4 by 4 Cross stitch stitched using Entice 209.   Once this was completed, I realized the stitch was beginning to look like 4-way Continental Variation which is not a new stitch to me.  A funny thing is that in the end 4-Way Continental, Alicia’s Lace Variation and the stitch I finally did do, Trellis Cross, all look very similar. Luckily, I never did Trellis Cross so I did do a stitch that was new to me.

If you like open stitches leave the letter “I” as is doing Steps 1 & 2 as shown on the stitched sample and diagram.  I found it easier to complete all of the 4 by 4 Cross stitches with E209 and then went back and added the Upright cross stitches also using E209.

To complete the stitch, add the additional Upright Crosses using 4 strands of Splendor S960 as shown blue on diagram.

I hope you can add this to your new stitches for 2021.  Give it a try!

Happy Stitching – Stephanie

New Stitch Monday With a Twist – Week 8

For the letter “O” on the Raymond Crawford “NEEDLEPOINT” canvas I did another Bargello stitch, Scallops.  It was a really easy stitch to do and to compensate.  I used Splendor S1134 for the main part of the stitch shown pink on diagram and Entice E231 for the accent stitch shown yellow on diagram. If you flip this stitch it would work for clothing and drapes.

I hope you can add this to your new stitches for 2021.  Give it a try!

Happy Stitching – Stephanie