Basque stitch

The TAST stitch for week 29 is Basque stitch. In my old TAST 2007 sampler I only used stranded floss. So now I stitched them with different threads, from top to bottom perle 12, 8 and 5.

Then I alternated the size of the stitches in variegated perle 5.

In the next 4 samples I did something different at the bottom of the Basque stitch. Here I added the first part of the fly stitch after finishing the row. The thread is stranded DMC, 2 threads of green floss and 1 thread blue Jewell effects.

Here I added a 2 mm bead to my thread before I made the second part of the stitch. At the second half of the row I added beads between the stitches too. The thread is perle 12.

Here I made a French knot to finish the twisted chain part of the Basque stitch. The thread is perle 5.

The last variation with different endings. Here I extended every second stitch with a chain stitch. The thread is perle 5.

This is the last sample on my red Aida, slanted stitches with perle 5.

I hope to share my finished red Aida sampler tomorrow when I added more beads to dot the i’s. There’s a bigger photo of my Basque stitches on my Flickr-page.