Twisted satin stitch

TAST stitch 89 and 90 is twisted satin stitch with and without beads.

TAST stands for Take A Stitch Tuesday, a challenge at Pin Tangle.

A few days ago I saw Queenie’s experiments with satin stitch, she made a double twist. Of course I had to try that, so here’s my twisted satin stitch with a double twist in perle 8. I played with the tension of the twist, loose at the left and tighter at the right.

Then I tried the double twist with a bead between the twists. The beads are locked, so they behave nicely!

Here I made a twist over 2 satin stitches. I think this looks pretty in 2 different colours. The threads are perle 8.

Again a twist over 2 satin stitches, but this time with a bead. I alternated the place of the bead by adding the bead before or after the twist.

I came up with this nice border when I was playing with the size of the 2 parts of the twisted satin stitch. The thread is Caron Watercolours.

Of course I took some step by step photos as a reminder. Here you can see I first made a small satin stitch. Then I came up again at the left and below for the twisted part.

It looked much better with a double twist.

I mirrored the second part of the repeat. I came up at the right and below for the twisted part and I twisted it the other way.

Again a second twist.

In this row I added a bead before and after the twist. The thread is perle 12.

This is a detail of my last row. A double twist with a variation over 2 satin stitches. 
I took step by step photos again.

The first twist under the left satin stitch.

The second twist under the right satin stitch.

And going to the backside at the top of the right satin stitch.

My complete sampler.

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