TAST Button Hole Stitch

We are in week two and soon will be in week three of  TAST.  I joined this challenge because I want to learn embroidery stitches.  I was doing the stitches on a scrap piece of fabric but was encouraged to create something with them by another person in the challenge.  I decided to make a small heart from a scrap quilted pillow case.  The fly stitch was week one and I did it on the seam of the quilted piece.

 

I used waste canvas which was pretty cool to use.  I always wondered how they got the stitches so uniform.  It is always about the tools!

This week we did the buttonhole stitch.  I did the buttonhole stitch around the yo yo flowers in yellow.

It is more fun to be creating something than to just try the stitches! Check out the other stitchers on the TAST Flickr site!

Take a Stitch Tuesday

Ok so I am trying something new!  I have been interested in doing some embroidery work.  I really love crazy quilts and want to make some small crazy quilt pieces... maybe even some jewelry if I can do something small enough. 

I have done alot of cross stitch but not alot of embroidery work so I found a challenge at Pin Tangle to learn and try a new embroidery stitch every Tuesday.  The challenge is called Take a Stitch Tuesday or TAST.  There are 100's of others joining in and there is a TAST Flickr site with photos.  Check out the beautiful needlework on these links.  Remember I am a beginner so my stitches are not so breath taking!   So here we go!

My first Fly Stitch

 

I am left handed so I always have to think through directions.  This was easy for me though.  I can tell that it will take time to have a comfort level with a stitch... especially to get it consistent... but I am  not unhappy with my first try at it.

I also tried another stitch that was referenced in Sharon B's Stitch Dictionary  the Oyster Stitch.

This took me awhile to get but again I am happy with my three little oyster stitches!  It is alot of fun and takes me back to my childhood.  My Grandma used to make embroidered pillow cases.  Wish I would have kept one of them!  Happy creating to you!