TAST week 5

The front side of my cushion cover

is growing more than the backside :

too many narrow lines.

Week 5 is the feather stitch

but before that I made a twig with leaves,

twisted chain stitch and fly stitches close together.

Then I made the Portugese stem stitch

around the edges and today some feather stitches at last

The Portugese stem stitch looks a bit lumpy,

because you wind the thread two times around the stitch

I also have now an overall plan

for the colour scheme.

(ha : guess what :

the whole rainbow)

wordless Wednesday

19 - 1 - 19 ... T A S T

The year had a quiet start :

I love that

after all the hussle and bussle of December.

Now January halfway gone ...

I am making sketches again for new pictures,

forming ideas of  "stories" ...

painting them will take a while.

But

I started something else :

T A S T 

No, not "task", though it is,

but Take A Stitch Tuesday.

I found this accidentally

and it reminded of my try two years back :

something similar but abandoned very soon.

Let's see what this year brings ...

An old IKEA cushion cover I found

(the back is almost totally white)

A thread-nest with odds and ends of other

stitching projects

The start of  T A S T  at the back side of the coverlet.

Me, I was stitching on Thursday

and catching up the first three weeks :

chain stitch, fly stitch and buttonhole stitch

(with variations if you want to)

All familiar to me so time to play !

(I hope it's allowed to stitch on other days too ?

at least I did !)

Start at the front ...

(HA, someone in the TAST - community

is using the very same coverlet ...)