No. 122- Chained bar, worked over knitted rayon tape with DMC ‘metallic jewel effects’. Sadly it moves and doesn’t look neat. Perhaps I should have twisted the thread as I stitched.
No. 123- Woven Chained Bar. Second attempt at this.
Again I used the knitted rayon tape as a base and hand-dyed silk thread for weaving. My error yesterday doing this was to have the bar too deep and stitching too wide, making the chain stitches loose when weaving. This time I placed the zig-zag points closer and 2 rows instead of 3 of the tape. Not perfect but much better and as I like the effect, will be using it more.
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I wish my chain bars looked liked yours. I’ve unpicked mine 6 times now and still it doesn’t look right.
By: carorose1 on July 24, 2014
at 4:21 pm
It took me several goes at keeping the chains where they belonged too, Carolyn. There must be an easy way to hold them in place,
By: Crazyqstitcher on July 25, 2014
at 1:43 pm
Metallic flosses can be such a bear to work with. I still think the chained bar is lovely. I love the color combinations and the textures. I hope my woven chained bar attempt turns out as well as yours. 🙂
By: Renee on July 25, 2014
at 2:46 am
Thanks for the kind words Renee.
By: Crazyqstitcher on July 25, 2014
at 1:45 pm
Thank you for sharing your work with us. I will soon have a go at these two TAST stitches.
By: Queeniepatch on July 25, 2014
at 5:12 am
Hi Queenie, I look forward to seeing what you come up with.. always interesting.
By: Crazyqstitcher on July 25, 2014
at 1:45 pm
You have made an excellent job of this stitch. Hope I can start catching up with the tast soon.
By: shirley on August 2, 2014
at 11:48 am