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Brazillian Embroidery Class at RMCQ and a Vintage Sewing site

Saturday, February 12, 2005

I'm tired tonight, I'm going to reorganize my "current projects", eat dinner, watch a bit of television and go to bed.

Our Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilting group got together today and had a fantastic Brazillian Embroidery lesson! We learned the stitches to do a thistle flower.

It was a lot of fun - I especially like the cast on stitch! I'll start work on it tomorrow and post my progress! We also swapped our blocks...mine looks fantastic and Ronni like her block too!

I ran across this site the other day about vintage sewing stitches - I thought it was interesting to see the names and approaches to stitches.
posted by Sharkeysday, 2/12/2005 09:09:00 PM

4 Comments:

Fascinating stuff about prepping on that site too--for "setting" colours of brown and lavender can be set with one tablespoonful of sugar of lead to a pail of water.

"Sugar of lead"??????????

What is that top stitch of the thistle and how does one do it? Is it a form of needleweaving or an actual stitch?
commented by Blogger arlee, February 13, 2005 8:53 AM  
The top stitches (if you're meaning the pieces that jut up from the thistle are buillion knots and cast-on stitches....cool, eh? Both stitches were part of our Brazillian embroidery class! I really really like the cast on stitch - some Brazillian Embroidery is taken from needleweaving, but this one is basically knitting.
commented by Blogger Sharkeysday, February 13, 2005 7:39 PM  
Any instructions on how to do that???(I have visions now of teeeny teeeny widdle knitting with size 13 beading needles:>)
commented by Blogger arlee, February 13, 2005 8:07 PM  
As always, Sharon's Stitch guide comes through: http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/caston.html

I was going to scan the one from my guide, but this is MUCH better guide. It's a really really cool stitch (no little bitty beading needles to knit with! LOL!)
commented by Blogger Sharkeysday, February 13, 2005 9:05 PM  

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