Sunday, February 28, 2016

Seam Stitches

The final task of my crazy quilting class is seam stitching, which I love. I went a little bead crazy on a couple of seams, and I like some more than others, but I'm not ripping anything out now. The ones I don't like will remind me next time what works and what could be improved.   Most of these are simple stitches dressed up with beads or other embellishments.

Cretan Stitch with double-holed seed beads, zig zag stith with sequins and beads:


Herringbone stitch with  too many beads:


Irregular feather stitch with french knots in flower thread:


Wheat chain stitch in overdyed pearl cotton:


Thorn stitch in yellow over variegated pearl cotton:


Three rows of Chevron stitch with beads.  The black long stitches help hold the Chevron stitches in place.  They were too loose for me!










5 comments:

FVITH said...

A nice range of stitches. Those last ones look creepy and do a realy good job of tying the pumpkin and spider images together, and the beads remind me of red back spiders - EEEeeeeEEK!

Kim said...

It's amazing how simple seams and embroidery stitches can look so pretty with the addition of beads and sequins. Your crazy patchwork is looking amazing, Laura.

Gale Bulkley said...

This really looks like a lot of work, and it is beautiful.

Renee said...

Laura, I absolutely love your seams. Beautiful work. I have to say, the clusters of spiderwebs in that last photo is fabulous! (I'm not a big fan of real spiders, but LOVE embroidered ones.) And the fibers you couched for your wisteria are perfect.

Susan said...

Lovely stitching. I particularly like the purple seam with the double-holed beads in the 4th picture and the multitude of small webs in your tree in the last picture. I don't think I've seen double-holed beads before, but I like the look of them. Something new to find!