Old buttonhole wheels

The TAST stitch for week 24 is buttonhole wheels. For me the fun starts with flipping through my photo’s for my weekly post with old stitches. I enjoy seeing what I already did and start thinking of what more I can do with the stitch.

My first sample is part of my TAST 2007 sampler. It’s stitched with stranded floss on muslin.

Buttonhole wheels is one of the stitches I use a lot in my CQ. This is a seam on block 15 of my Crazy Monday quilt. It’s stitched with 2 threads of stranded floss.

This seam is part of the first block I made for Sharon’s encrusted class. I stitched quarter buttonhole wheels with 2 threads of stranded floss inside the scallops of the lace and decorated it with beads.

This is a detail on my ATC Yellow swirls. I stitched a quarter buttonhole wheel with stranded floss in the corner of the couching.

I made this ATC for a swap in September 2009. Tricia was my swap partner and I knew she liked the turtle beads, so I started with those and added the buttonhole wheels. The edge is decorated with fluffy yarn and beads.

Last week I wrote about how I made the half buttonhole wheels on my CQ without marking the fabric. You can read it here.