TAST Updates – Weeks 2 and 3

I have two weeks of Take a Stitch Tuesday updates to show.  Last week’s stitch was the Buttonhole Stitch, and this week’s was Feather Stitch.  Both are related, but I like how they look side by side where you can see the slight difference in technique.

I confess – I did NOT do well with buttonhole stitching last week.  I spent half the time ripping it out because the tension was a disaster. I couldn’t get things to place where I wanted them to go.  And frankly… it’s a very boring stitch.   As you can see, I gave up on my slow, controlled pattern because I was so bored with it and just started making squiggly lines across my space to fill it and be done with it.

I enjoyed feather stitches a lot more – it felt more comfortable, and despite being set up in a similar way as the buttonhole, I didn’t feel like I was fighting with the floss to get it to sit on the fabric.  It was fun, it took shape quickly, and I was able to just relax and play, allowing the stitches to fall where they fell naturally.

Since the stitch forms twiggy shapes, I wanted to try for a floral bud row and do some French Knot practicing… yeah, that didn’t go well.  I got worse as I went along.  French Knots and me?  Don’t get along well.  Every once in a while I manage to do one right (the i above the row is actually dead on), but most of the time they’re sloppy.

I want to add a couple more practice scribbles to this one, but I feel like browsing some of the other participants’ projects and see what they’re doing… and if something really attracts my eye, I may play with it.  🙂