A Poinsettia

The poinsettia added to my son's crazy quilted Christmas stocking is not perfect, but for a first attempt, I am not complaining!

While using the open base needlewoven picot stitch to make a sea star in 2015, I thought about how well it could work for a poinsettia on a Christmas crazy quilt.

In January of this year, I saw some of the beautiful flowers Michelle of MooshieStitch created using this stitch and knew I would add one to this stocking. Following the layout in this tutorial that Michelle shared at Feeling Stitchy, I created this poinsettia.

Size 8 red and green perle cotton was used to create the petals and the leaves. Gold Mill Hill petite seed beads were used to fill the center and to embellish the background of this motif area.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Renee

This is Day 19 of the 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge hosted by www.muppin.com. You may read more about it and find other participating blogs here.

TAST 2016 Stitch 49

TAST Stitch 49: Open Base Picot Stitch

Open Base Picot Stitch

There were two variations of the picot stitch introduced with TAST
stitch 49. One had an open base and the other had a closed base.

Using a strand of variegated green EdMar Glory #040 floss, 

I worked 3 open based picot stitches onto an under-the-sea 

themed crazy quilt block.

Personally, I love the texture this stitch adds to embroidery.

The sheen of the EdMar floss is fun, too.

(If you missed my post with this completed block yesterday,
you may find it here.)

Open base picot stitch and French knots used to create a sea star.

In the past, I used this stitch and French knots to create 
a sea star on a block embellished for a friend in an 
under-the-sea themed crazy quilting round robin. 
(You may view that block here.) 
I used size 5 variegated red & pink pearl cotton floss.

TAST stands for Take A Stitch Tuesday.

It is a personal stitching challenge.

Each week, Sharon B. introduces a new stitch tutorial on her blog, Pintangle.com.

There is also a TAST Facebook group where members share some amazing work!

You may learn more about TAST here.