Double lock stitch and beaded double lock stitch

TAST stitch 130 is double lock stitch. TAST stitch 131 is beaded double lock stitch. TAST stands for Take A Stitch Tuesday, an embroidery challenge at Pin Tangle.

This morning I planned to stitch a double lock stitch sampler, but first I had a quick look at Sharon’s blog to see this week’s stitch. It was a surprise to see it was the beaded version, so I decided to add it to my sampler. I stitched on 14 count Aida. Again I stitched lock stitch from left to right, as I showed last week. My first row is just a normal double lock stitch as Sharon’s taught us at Pin Tangle. The threads are wool and perle 8.

This variation was already on my TAST 2010 sampler, but I repeated it with different threads: Kreinik very fine braid and cotton a broder. I shifted the second row of lock stitches.

On my lock stitch sampler for TAST 2010 I used different stitches for the base of the lock stitch. Of course I wanted to do the same for the double lock stitch. Here I used VanDyke stitch (TAST stitch 76) in Caron Wildflowers for the base of the double lock stitch in Perle 12.

In my next row I used Siennese stitch (TAST stitch 83) in perle 5 for the base of the beaded double lock stitch in YLI silk buttonhole twist.

I thought it would be fun to add bugle beads to the straight stitches before stitching the double lock stitch. The beads are too close, it’s a very crowded row! I didn’t frog it, because it inspired me for my last row.

In my last row I added the beads to the straight stitches again, but I put every second straight stitch through the previous bead. The threads are YLI silk buttonhole twist and cotton a broder.

Just take a closer look at my finished sampler here.