Old stem stitches

The TAST stitch for week 15 is stem stitch. I’ve used it in lots of different pieces, so it was not so easy to pick just a few to show you today. Of course I start with the embroidery you all know as the TAST logo. I stitched the lines in stem stitches with Caron Wildflowers. On this detail you can see how I stitched the intersection.

The second sample is an ATC I made for a green ATC swap. The dragon is stitched in stem stitches, the horns in satin stitch.

I also use stem stitch for the labels of my quilts. This is the label of my little quilt Sunbonnet friends. The lettering is stitched in backstitches.

In 2009 I made a little redwork quilt for my niece. This is just one of the 4 blocks 

I stitched in stem stitches. The finished quilt is here.

Last year I used stem stitch to emphasize the flowers on this ATC. The hearts of the flowers are chain stitches and there are straight stitches inside the petals.