Week 20 - Butterfly Chain

[cinzia]

Hey this stitch is dead easy and looks cool to boot.
Sharon's blog is here, last year's samples are here and step by step directions are here.

Check out the tea cosy in last year's sample. For a minute I thought it wouldn't come up well in non-aida fabric but this sample uses it rather creatively... might take up tea drinking.

[BackwoodsCreations]

Oh I like the looks of this alot! Thanks for sharing.

[Andrea Carew]

I still have not finished the other stuff I need to finish/do before I dig out my stuff and catch up on these TAST stitches, but I did do a little bit of butterfly chain the first time around - and I liked it (just didn't get time to do much of it) ... the picture is here ... and it is part of this blog post
anyway ... hmmm instead of "getting lost in cyberspace" again, I should go off and do some of that other stuff, and maybe while I am doing some of the sorting out I am doing in my sewing room, I will see if my little pile of TAST stuff is somewhere handy - so that I can start on that as soon as I finish the other thing.

[cinzia]

Hi Andrea,
I thought I recognised your name and yes I was right.. we met on scatterdays... that was fun.... should get around to doing something regular like that again...ahhh butit is as you say... once you start on this machine you can literally lose a lifetime!
Liked you samples... yes you will need to drag out you things and get back into it... I'm planning on getting into it soon.

[Andrea Carew]

You can always join in with ABC Wednesday ... except that this Wednesday is the letter Z ... lol ... but I think they are going to go around again (aparently this was the 3rd time around the alphabet - I only found it and joined a couple if weeks ago, when they were up to X)
er ... I probably should go and do something useful, instead of what I just spent a couple of hours doing - writing a blog post about "Z" ( to go on my blog tomorrow)

[Ruth Palsson]

Well, I did finish butterfly chain last night.

[cinzia]

Although I like your butterflies the best I think I can use the largish zig zag row just to the left. How do you think it would turn out being done on non-aida fabric. Looking closely at it I can't see how you formed it though.

[Ruth Palsson]

I rather like that zigzag row. I drew out roughly where I wanted the stem and the leaves (straight stitches) to go with a blue pen. Then I worked the straight stitches more or less in the same hole at the stem end. Then I started at the top with a new thread and worked down tying it as I went. It would work well on a non-Aida fabric as nothing is counted. It would probably need a hoop. Have fun,

Ruth P

[cinzia]

OK will give that a try and then report back:-)

[Gina E.]

Came to a dead stop with this stitch. The three foundation stitches are allright, but twisted chain stitch??? Can't work that one out at all.

[cinzia]

But the sample does look pretty.