Sunday Stitches

Welcome back to Week 3 of Sunday Stitches Blog.  I hope everyone is enjoying this as much as I am....it never ceases to amaze me how differently a stitch can look stitched compared to the graph!! This week we are still in Chapter 1, Balanced Stitches, of Whimsical Stitches Volume 3, by Mary Legallet.  We are starting on page 16 with a stitch called Alternating Offset Mosaic.  Mary warns us that the stitch is "decptively difficult", and I 100% agree!!  She recommends we stitch in columns which I did, and once I did a few columns, I was off to...

Welcome to Week 2 of the Sunday Stitches Challenge.  This week we are showing the next 4 stitches from Mary Legallet's book, Whimsical Stitches Volume 3.  We are still in Chapter 1, Balanced Stitches. The first stitch is on page 12 and is called Alternating Diamonds.  When looking at the chart of  this stitch in the book, it looks like a trellis stitch, but once it is stitched it looks more like hour glasses to me.  Once again, I thought this would need to be used for a large area, but I think this is simply not true.  It would...

Welcome to Week 1 of the Sunday Stitches Challenge.  We are starting with the first 4 stitches from in Mary Legallet's book, Whimsical Stitches Volume 3.  The first Chapter is called Balanced Stitches. The first stitch is great for small areas....try this if you are tired of using T-Stitch or Diagonal Mosaic.  Just go for it!  We also taught this stitch on Saturday at the Shop 6/18/22, so check it out! The second stitch is what I refer to as a "Trellis" stitch.  It would be a beautiful background or in a large area.....for example, I am sitting in the shop...

Every week Heidi teaches a stitch on Instagram Live and now we are providing a free chart of the stitch!