Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 322: Open Linked Chain Stitch

Thirteen years ago, I started participating in Sharon Boggon's TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday) project. It is an online stitch challenge, and it is still going on. I can highly recommend it. Check out the link above.

At TAST, we were not only taught new stitches but encouraged to use them in creative ways. Oh, I learned so much from those Tuesday tutorials. 

There were many participants following TAST, and we were all invited to share our work on Sharon's website Pintangle. Among the participants were Chitra of Jizee6687's Weblog and Annet of Fat Quarters. Those two ladies were especially adventurous and made many new experiments based on Sharon's basic stitches.

Unfortunately, neither Chitra nor Annet are active on their blogs any longer. Here is a link to a blog post Chitra published in 2014, so you can see how she expanded TAST #95 Linked Chain Stitch.

 This is my sample of the stitch in 2014.

Annet also made new versions, and today's stitch is the result she got after having tweaked the Linked Chain Stitch.

You can see her experimental tutorial here, it is also from 2014. She called it Open Linked Chain Stitch.

Below you can see my step-by-step photo instructions.

First, you make an Open Chain Stitch.

Use an odd number when you space the

two legs. Here I worked over three holes.

Next, you need a Back Stitch from the

middle of the stitch line, (which is why

you needed that uneven number).

And one more Back Stitch into the 

same middle position.

The first unit is done.

You now start all over again from 

a little bit below.

I anchored my thread in the last pointed 

Back Stitch. It looks a bit like a pencil!

Or a stack of capital As!

Homework:

Add a stack of As to the three samplers:

Friday Homework for Lesson 321: Cornucopia Chain Stitch

 Oh, this is such a cute stitch! It's addictive!

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Green Wollen Scribble Cloth

WIPW - The Tatted Princess

It is time to show a week's worth of progress for Work In Progress Wednesday.

Hexablooms

Once again, I managed to make a set of ten hexabloom blocks. The total is now 370.

Only seven more to reach 377!

Birthday Card

Here is the birthday card I made, and I only showed you a blurred photo of a couple of weeks ago.

I found the little piece of tatting made long ago in a box. As it looked like a tiara, I decided to draw a face, add hair, a gown and jewellery, before making it into a card.

Is there a special reason these cards are called window cards - you can actually make a picture of someone looking out of a window!

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Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

More blue sequins were spilt out over the sampler.

Cross-stitch Bookmark

This piece has a few more stitches now.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 321: Cornucopia Chain Stitch

I saw the design for today's stitch on YouTube, but I did not keep the link and can not find it again. Nor do I remember the name of the stitch, if indeed it had one. 

So I have taken the liberty of calling it Cornucopia Chain Stitch. Should you know of an official name, please leave a message in the Comments below.

You might think it resembles #110 Russian Chain Stitch, 

but there are three  Detached Chain stitches at the top, not two, and they are smaller.

Make it like this:

 

Easy and decorative, don't you think?

Homework: 

Add here.