TAST 61, 62 & 63

I've been playing catch-up on my Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches! 

TAST stitch 61 is up and down feather stitch. I stitched it on block 8 for Karen's class Embroider, Embellish, Create. I stitched oyster stitches inside the up and down part of the stitch. The threads are cotton a broder.

TAST stitch 62 is raised cross stitch. I’ve used many different threads, ribbons and a fluffy yarn on my Aida sampler.

At the left is perle 5, at the right a funny fibres ribbon.

This is the base of a design I found in my book The stitches of creative embroidery.

The finished design. I added fly stitches, straight stitches, detached chain stitches and colonial knots. Perle 5 for the raised cross stitch and perle 8 for all other stitches.

A double cross stitch as the base for my raised cross stitch.

The finished raised double cross stitch with Caron Watercolours. Take a closer look at my raised cross stitch sampler in a different angle here.

TAST stitch 63 is scroll stitch, this time I’ve used perle 5. In the centre row I added beads after seeing this sample.

This is my way of adding the beads to the scroll stitch. Take a closer look at this detail here.

I still don’t like the scroll stitch, it disorganizes very easy as you can see in the blue row.