Saturday, October 17, 2015

Herringbone, Running & Satin Stitches

 Our stitchery guild began a program last month to make an alphabet book with stitches.  We can use any material or stitches or sewing we want.  I decided to use my rust and eco dyed material and began with the letter H and Herringbone stitches.  This piece of fabric was rust and loose tea dyed.
 The letter R for running stitches as well as for the rust and rose leaves.
 I've been working on this embellished purse for months and the end is in sight. Various yarns, cheese cloth, wool roving and organza was first "sewn" down using an embellishing machine onto a piece of denim.  I've added seed, feather, herringbone, cross stitches and beads and just have blue wooden beads to add to the tassels.  Not sure if I'll ever really use it and think of it more as an art purse rather than a functional one. 
 Caught up with Sharon's Take A Stitch Tuesday and this week added satin stitches.  Don't know what next week's stitch will be yet but I'm hoping it's one that I'll like for the beak.
 We don't often see a Blue Jay in the yard but this one showed up the other day.  Today we enjoyed his antics at getting the peanuts out of the coil and watching him fly back and forth to hide them all.  The wiley Magpies were watching of course and more than likely ate them all.
Finally, finally dug up the rest of the carrots today so that's it for another bountiful garden year.

Wishing everyone a fabulous Fall day :)

16 comments:

  1. I love visiting and seeing all the most interesting stitches you are doing. I do hope your Owl gets his beak soon. Fabulous how you have used your rusted fabrics for alphabet stitching. You have created a beautiful "art" purse. Creative Fiber Bliss...

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  2. Fantastic carrots! The birds in your yard continue to give you a lot of entertainment, as does your TASTy owl. It ill be a great sampler, and let's hope the nest stitch can be used for the beak.
    Even if you never get to USE the beautiful purse, if you place it somewhere you can see it every day, it will give you a lot of pleasure -true eye candy!
    Your stitched alphabet sampler is coming along beautifully.

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  3. what a good way to use your rust dyed fabrics, the blue herringbone wouks so well with the rusty colour. Your owl is coming along well, afraid though full of good intentions I have not kept up with Sharon`s tast. The embellished purse is lovely, good to see something created on the machine, all I have done is make fabric then taken it no further. What woppers your carrots are! The birds continue to visit you and keep you entertained with their antics, I had a sparrow hawk the other day and then a fox appeared whist pegging out the washing, not sure who had the bigger shock!

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  4. Lovely lovely work Jeannette - your book of stitches is going to be wonderful. I love the purse - do you know the work of Isobel Hall? She makes incredible bags, bowls etc She had a fantastic exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching show last week. The owl is brilliant - such a good idea to use it for your TAST stitches. Amazing carrots - ours are not even half the size of yours! xx

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  5. Love the stitch book idea especially using our own dyed fabric. purse as a piece of art work is a great idea. You must have lovely soil to get such wonderful carrots. Never seen a ring of peanuts before no good in my garden the squirrels would eat them first.

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  6. Really lovely, creative work. I really like the herringbone - so even and perfectly placed.

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  7. I'm really enjoying your TAST owl. He(?) has such great character. Migration is in full swing here now, so that's a chance to see some different birds than usual. We also had a few snowflakes yesterday. I'm not ready for that!

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  8. Your stitch book will be gorgeous. I love the owl and enjoy seeing how you add the new stitches. The embellished purse is exquisite. Love the photo of the Blue Jay and those carrots are huge.

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  9. Your stitch book is beautiful and your Tast Owl is such a good idea.

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  10. Love the rust work stitching as well as all the beautiful work on the purse.

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  11. Beautiful stitch. That's very creative!

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  12. Your alphabet book sounds like a fun project and is off to a great start! I love your purse. Your TAST owl is fantastic! I look forward to seeing your next updates.

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  13. The alphabet stitch book is a great idea. your alphabets are shaping up nicely. the purse looks fantastic. very creative and I love the colours.

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  14. OMG! Check out those carrots!!! They are huge!!!!
    Love the owl work and your little purse. They look amazing.

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  15. Your stitching is beautiful, but OMG...the size of those carrots in HUGEEE!!! We really can't grow them here at all...they turn out MICROSCOPIC!!!! It's seriously amazing to see you there with them! Great job!!!!!

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  16. An alphabet stitch book - what a neat idea! It was fun to see your blue jay getting peanuts from that ring - we bought one and the birds absolutely shunned it. Maybe your peanuts taste better than ours!

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