Take a stitch Tuesday

[florcita]

I don't know if any of you have heard of this project starting 2012. Every tuesday, Sharon (from pintangle.com ) will teach a new embroidery stitch.
I have no clue about embroidery so I thought it'd be nice to learn. A new skill is never redundant! and embroidery sometimes goes so well with some felting projects...

So... if you are interested, here is the info: www.pintangle.com/community-challenges/2011/12/1/take-a-stitch-tuesday-2012-challenge-information-page.html

[zed]

It looks interesting, I'd like to learn too

[MTRuth]

Sharon does a great job with this and it's fun to see what others do with their stitch. I haven't done it but I did one of her "Take It Further" Challenges a couple of years ago. Sharon also has a wonderful online stitch dictionary.

[karen]

I have seen her and i'm going to follow along this time, there is also My Sweet Prairie who has Saturday Stitches and her work is gorgeous
www.mysweetprairie.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Stitches
I'm staringt an online course with Victoria Crowder Payne in a few weeks and really looking forward to that, i love her work, its different and out there ! freedomofstitch.com/

[lyn]

Kaz, I was fascinated by 'mysweetprairie's blog. I like the way she shows her stitching.

Florcita, I will pop over to 'pintangle' on Tuesdays because stitching fascinates me.

Stitching on felt makes such a difference - have you seen the little piece my daughter put on our blog the other day? It was just a scrap of 'nonsense' felt but with a few stitches it became a landscape.

[karen]

Lyn her blog is great and what she can do with stitches is amazing isnt it

I saw your daughters new piece of felt and fell in love straight away, it look so gorgeous and thats kind of where i want to go with mine, i just have to keep practising

[shelley]

Lyn...it's lovely. I am so going to be watching both teaching sites. x

[koffipot]

Thanks for that info. florcita - I really hope you're busy producing our baby just now!! I'll take a look at the site on Tuesday.

All good wishes

[MTRuth]

So if lots of people are going to be following Take a Stitch Tuesday, do you want a separate area in the forum to show the results so we can all see what you're doing? I'd be glad to set that up if everyone is interested.

[zed]

I was thinking the same thing, Ruth

[koffipot]

Both sites are really interesting, I used to do embroidery, but it was all a bit stiff and formal - I really prefer to be more loose -does that make me a loose woman

Looks like Tuesdays and Saturdays are for needlework, it's going to be a busy time!!

[karen]

LOL Judith, yes it does but we like that so its ok

Great idea Ruth

[MTRuth]

OK - I set it up - there is a new category of challenges, swaps etc. I put TAST under that. So if you're doing any stitches or have done work in the past that includes the weekly stitch, post it there.

[zed]

Great idea for a new category