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| all Saturday Stitches tutorials link HERE |
Last week I was able to visit with Margot (my stitch mentor). It's been soooo long! In fact, it's been too long. I'll blame it on winter. I was able to stay longer than usual at her home this time and we had such a great visit! I am so thankful. She is one of my favorite people on earth. There's one stitch she showed me that I had never seen before. It was in a Jan Beaney / Jean Littlejohn book. It was an older book - black and white and quite horrible to make out, but right away I saw evergreen trees. "Oh! What's that!?" I asked. Margot said it was the Thorn Stitch. Away I went...
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| a few clear samples / variations of the Thorn Stitch |
I can see this being very useful. I won't get into step by step instructions because I think this is pretty straight forward. You begin by stitching a long center line, and then you simply stitch cross-hatches over it. Image a piece filled with layers and layers of all sizes of threads and yarns and floss. It would look like a forest! You could make the trees tall, thin, and sparse. You could make a low, dense treeline. The various sizes of fibres give a sense of depth and layers.
There you go - Saturday Stitches once again. ; ) If you'd like to see more Saturday Stitches, go HERE or click on the Tutorials link at that top of my blog.
Happy Weekend,
3 comments:
I've always enjoyed your Saturday stitches--glad they're back!
Hi Monika..I, too, am in Canada... and saw one of your comments on a blog that had a profile of Karen Ruane... I have just signed up for her online class.... and was happy to see you were pleased with it when you took the class.
I am in Calgary... it looks like you are not too far away...but, still too far for coffee I think. If you ever get this far west ..to the edge of the prairies..email me..come for coffee and biscotti...
I so enjoyed your Saturday stitching... gives me inspiration!! And it's a good reminder to look at past ones again :)
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