I am happy to give you a progress report in this Stitch-A-Long! And good progress too.
As you know I am doing Cathy Reavy’s Stitch Wheel Sampler. It is designed so that each cell is a different stitch.
This is where is is at the moment. Not much further to go!
Close ups of each stitch….
(I got a little muddled with my numbering on the photos. I showed you the one with the x last time. Also you can probably count better than I can. There is no #5!)
- 1. The line is Chain stitch; the flowers are lazy daisy, with some little French knots.
- 2. A couple of rows of Feather stitch
- 3. Couching
- 4. Knotted pearl stitch
- 6. I have just realised that this one is also #4, knotted pearl stitch.
- 7. Double up and down blanket stitch
- 8. Blanket stitch
- 9. Heavy chain stitch
I have also added these sweet little pink flowers to the basket in the earlier ring. They are created in oyster stitch, which is rather fiddly. Some of the other stitches create petals with less fiddle.
I’m on the home stretch. Fingers crossed that it will be finished next check in!
This SAL is for our personal embroidery. The members of this group do wonderful and interesting work. Follow the links to be inspired!
Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, AJ, Cathie, Linda, Helen
I respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land on which I live – the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, their spirits, ancestors, elders and community members past and emerging.
Anne Lawson Art 
38 replies on “SAL”
I love seeing the variety of beautiful stitches.
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Isn’t there a wide variety? I think Cathy Reavy has done a good job in making each stitch interesting.
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Lots of lovely progress again!
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I pushed on with these ones, and they really don’t take long to do.
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Your getting close to a finish and this looks lovely.
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A big push over the next three weeks, and I will have the finished one to show you. Then I have to decide what to do with it. I am leaning towards making a cushion.
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such a bright & cheerful piece, as well as being a wonderful learning tool.
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I am really glad I have documented each stitch on the blog. It will be a good reference.
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It is very colourful and who knew there were so many stitches – it is a good reminder.
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It’s pretty, isn’t it? I am surprised with the range of stitches too. I hope it will encourage me to move beyond running and feather stitches!
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Beautiful stitching, Anne! I love all the colors too ☺️
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Thanks Christina. It will be nice to have such a pretty sampler to refer back to.
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Beautiful job, and the finish is coming so quickly!
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I am hoping for a happy dance next SAL.
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I enjoy your stitch-along updates, Anne. Your work is beautiful. You really are in the home stretch. Will you frame your piece, or turn it into a cushion or perhaps make it part of a larger piece? I’m looking forward to the next update.
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I think I will make it into a cushion. It is very tactile, and my fingers enjoy running over it. i do intend to use it as a reference, to extend the stitches I use in my own work…I am just not sure what that will be.
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I love that you’ll make this a pillow. It’s been many, many years since I’ve done any real stitching, but every time you post I think I should pick it up again. Your sample stitches are lovely.
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The colours sing to me… just what we need right now… cheeriness!
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It is pretty, isn’t it? It is hard to go wrong with teals, bright pinks and lime greens.
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I had no idea that there were so many different stiches!
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Nor me! I suspect this it the tip of the stitching iceberg.
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I actually recognised some of the stitch names as ones I have learned! Now I just have to recognise the stitches so I can name them! It is a lovely piece of work.
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That’s great! There is nothing like practical experience to help us learn.
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Wow you are so close! It is so cool to now know exactly how to do all these stitches and to have examples of them
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You are so right, AJ. It will be a good reminder when I get to do my own stitching.
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Anne that is just delicious – I cannot think of a better word. I enjoyed just staring at the images for a while. I wish I could stitch like that but I will just instead enjoy your talent!
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Delicious! what a lovely word to use for the stitching wheel. Colour selection can make or break a project, can’t it?
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It can! And you definitely have excellent taste when it comes to color/colour palettes 🙂
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Anne, that’s been an interesting challenge – and maybe you won’t use some of the stitches again, but at least you know if you saw them in a pattern/idea – you will know where you can access them and know that you could make them again. A cushion sounds like a great idea and one of those objects that would start a conversation easily…
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I am looking forward to showing my Mum ~ when we can meet up again. She loves talking to me about my projects, and she taught me how to embroider.
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that will be fun, I wonder if your Mum will have used all those stitches. Some people in earlier periods made “samplers” – often to do with a school project. And I know there are still people who make them – especially for special occasions like the birth of a child or the wedding of “jack and Jill”
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She says that many are new to her. I think she used the basics, and now limits herself to stem stitch, chain and lazy daisy. Her grandmother taught her to embroider, so it has come down a few generations.
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Beautiful! Thera are two of my favorite stitches, the Lazy Daisy and the Couching stitch! Great progress!
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I love the couching stitch too. It is so versatile, and quick!
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Numbering like that is how I used to send clients prospective jewellery designs, but, I too an rubbish with numbers, so now -after a stroke of geniarse, I put a wooden scrabble tile in the photo, and then there’s not need for me to edit in the details later 🙂
I love this sampler. Thank you for continuing to share.
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Inspired idea indeed! I would steal the idea if I had Scrabble tiles ☺️
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I cheated and ordered some from a local supplier.
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My mouth dropped open when I went to the link, Anne. For covering so many stitches and making it into art, like putting together squares of painting effects to make a patchwork painting. I’m currently doing a big afghan throw in pastels, 25 X 12 row squares to join and then edge. I’m always wondering what comes next when I’m half way through a project. Well, here is a great option! I love it! And your colours too. Good going :>)
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