Showing posts with label cretan stitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cretan stitch. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Holy cretan stitch, Batman it's raining cats and dogs

The rain's hardly let up, and the water keeps creeping across the park.....times like this I can boast I have water views.  The land rises up to my house, and it's high off the ground like the one you can see in the picture, so I'm in no danger.


Today is Take a Stitch Tuesday ( http://www.pintangle.com/), and the stitch this week is cretan stitch.  I've not used this before, I always thought it looked too complicated, so I ignored it as a seam treatment on cq.  But really, it's quite easy to do, and can look very different depending whether you make it close and small, or large and wide.  I've gone somewhere in the middle and added it here to one of my cq hearts, along with some feather stitch, which was last weeks stitch which I didn't get around to doing.  I've just done a basic stitch with both of them, and not taken them any further.


 This feather stitch sampler, however, is a fine example of taking it further. This was featured by Sharon as one of the highlights of week 3.

 Off to check there's no holes in the canoe!!