{"id":1898,"date":"2019-04-08T10:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2019-04-08T17:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:53:36","slug":"let-the-people-choose-specialty-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"Let the people choose…Specialty Stitches!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am linking up with Jo of Serendipitous Stitching<\/a> for her monthly SAL, Let the People Choose…and the people chose Specialty Stitches this month!<\/p>\n

I am firmly in the “Love Specialty Stitches” camp!<\/p>\n

My career as a needlewoman began with cross stitch and crewel almost simultaneously. Cross stitch is what stuck, although I remain fascinated by crewel and I bet if you hang out reading my blog long enough you eventually will see me try it out again. One of my first crewel projects was a cauliflower and carrot by Jiffy Stitchery. The cauliflower was entirely made of French Knots. I never finished the project because I ran out of orange yarn for the carrot but here it is! I can’t even believe I still have it! I dug it out of my box of UFOs from childhood\/teenage years.<\/p>\n

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You could say that this was the way to master French knots! I do like doing them!<\/p>\n

When I got seriously back into stitching several years ago one of my first “big” projects was Just Nan’s Bee Blossoms which is full of specialty stitches:<\/p>\n

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Of course Just Nan does enjoy using specialty stitches in all her band samplers, and I have made two others for my baby girls, Baby Garden and Baby Celebration:<\/p>\n

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About that time, I discovered The Victoria Sampler’s Learning Collection which is a wonderful series for practicing specialty stitches. If you are interested in learning a new stitch, I highly recommend these very pretty little kits.<\/p>\n

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The Biscornuments from Victoria Sampler also have some nice specialty stitches:<\/p>\n

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Another designer who is excellent for learning some specialty stitches is Atalie, from France. Atalie charts are nearly impossible to find in the US but I ordered a bunch from a French shop several years ago, and it is just a question of making them up. Here are 2 hearts I made from Atalie, which I showed for our February Hearts post.<\/p>\n

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And then there is one of my favorite designers, The Drawn Thread. You all have seen my Random Thoughts piece many times of course so I will show just the close ups of the most fun specialty stitches and then the French Garden fob and “All You Need Is Love”<\/a> which are both small but chock full of special stitches!<\/p>\n

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And finally, going along with the Love theme, I have this sweet little mini sampler from The Sweetheart Tree: Tiny, but full of specialty stitches!<\/p>\n

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I wish I had something new to show you this post because if you are a regular reader you probably have already seen all of these! I am not working on anything with specialty stitches right now, but I have several in the queue, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I am linking up with Jo of Serendipitous Stitching for her monthly SAL, Let the People Choose…and the people chose Specialty Stitches this month! I am firmly in the “Love Specialty Stitches” camp! My career as a needlewoman began with cross stitch and crewel almost simultaneously. Cross stitch is what stuck, although I remain fascinated by crewel and I bet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}