Saturday 25 February 2012

TAST Challenge week 7 - Detached chain stitch

 

Detached-chain stitch or lazy-daisy stitch is the stitch that first brought me to Pintangle and introduced me to the TAST challenge! I was originally looking for a way to decorate a felt elephant reminiscent of the painted elephants of India.



So as you can see I am fairly familiar with making flower shapes with this stitch but hadn't explored much beyond that.

So here is my sample of detached chain stitch...


 

I did a few more flowers to get warmed up to the stitch....





and then started creating some different shapes...



I like the shape created by these stitches - the area bounded by the chains is interesting. I think I'd like to do some work with stronger contrast colours making geometric patterns. We'll see what happens...
As I'm so late posting, here are Sharon B's highlights.

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    1. Thanks, I enjoyed this one after a slow start.

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  2. Beautiful stitching. What a cute little elephant. Lovely.

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    1. Thanks - I did get a bit carried away with embroidering him but I enjoyed it a lot!

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