PLAYING CATCH UP ~ A G A I N grrrrrrrrrrr TAST 3 ~ 4 ~ 5

One more time I am going to play catch up at TAST.  No ones fault but my own ~ I guess laziness.  Sometimes it is like my brain shifts into neutral and won't shift out.  So here are my entries for TAST week 3 ~ the feather stitch:

The feather stitch is my all time favorite.  Oh it will hide a multitude of sins on fabric and crazy stitching. My favorite variation is a grape vine.

So here is TAST week 4 the cretan stitch.  It is not one of my favorites. It is really hard for me to do a balanced cretan stitch repeatedly.  I do love it used as chcken wire fencing as several of the other folks at TAST showed ~ I tried but ripped it out. Still working on that one.

So Now with this TAST week 5 entry I am caught up again.
This week is the herringbone.  Easy to create, not so easy to repeat over and over as a balanced line of stitches.  (**in case you haven't figured it out yet ~ I am a Libra which means balance is EVERYTHING is me.  I absolutely suffer pain trying to do anything asymetrical.**)
So here is my creation with the herringbone stitch.  It is a pretty one to do completely in beads.

So now I am caught up ~ AGAIN.  Maybe for a few days.
Here is a view of my first page of my sampler book I am doing.  I will go back a put the names of the stitches in each square. I have not figured out if I will just write them or what.

 

Now I have to go back to work on my square for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project for J A N U A R Y.  Yeah I missed that deadline too !!!!  But that is a whole different story... and post.
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Mary