Chicken Little 101 - Rice Stitch

I don't think Rice Stitch was part of the TAST list from the last round and I had told myself if there were new stitches then I would try and make time to do them.  And what fun!  There was something comforting about doing another Chicken Little, like getting into your PJs after a bad day at work even though its only 530pm (which makes my hubby roll his eyes but I still do it!).  That and creating a wee project that only took a couple of days was good for the soul after all the arguments I've been having with my other chicken project.

Anyway....

Rice stitch made me think of those golf jerseys with the diamonds on them.  You know the ones with the diamond patterns usually in pastel colours??  I did the large cross stitch in a single strand of pale pink and then did the 'legs' in two strands of the pink or purple to get the golf jersey look.

I like this wee guy quite a bit, firstly the original jpg is quite sweet.  And for some reason it made me think of my grandad.  Grandad always had a hand knitted jersey on and if it was warm then he wore a knitted vest.  Nanna always knitted his jerseys (and vests) and while I can't imagine him ever wearing one this colourful - this Chicken Little is for him!

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Some progress..

Hi... Maybe that title is misleading... but then it doesn't say a LOT of progress does it? 😆

I've been busy with other things and I've been stalled.  What to do in that area of wonky bullion knots?!?  

But inspiration finally struck  - detached chain.  I've done it in a single strand which looks a bit sparse I think, but when I considered that the rest of the tail feathers could result in something quite busy I figured that I am at least on the right track with detached chain.  Whether I need to go back and pull them out again and replace them with two strands remains to be seen.  I guess I could also use the blue thread in between the coloured stitches as well to make it more 'complete' feather wise.  But I'll see as I go.  

Actually the more I think about it the more I like the idea of the blue between the coloured chains.  Blogging is actually quite helpful at times!

Anyway thats all I have for now.  I need to make the most of this quiet time and actually do some stitching.

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Where do the weeks go?

I haven't made much progress, well, on anything.  And especially not stitching.

One Fish Two Fish - finished stitch 12 of the current round of TAST making this page 1 of my fabric book slash stitch sampler.  I haven't washed the pen out yet as I'm worried I'll lose all the marking for the other half of the fabric which is page 2.  Have decided I will use this colour scheme for page 2 and then I'm getting rid of it, it looked all very nice on the swatch but in practice its just not doing it for me.

TAST Isolated Stitches challenge - I've got a bit stuck with this.  Not sure if its those horribly wonky bullion knots causing my block or if its just the project itself coupled with lack of time.  I'm going to spend some time unpicking the bits I don't like this afternoon and see if that helps rejuvenate my interest.

I love loads of French knots!  and I'm pretty pleased with how the detached chain came out over the white area, although you can't see in the photo but I have a heap of dog hair caught in there that needs picking out.  I might unpick the bottom of his chest there, there are two buttonholed bars that are sitting a bit wonky, there was too much room for just one and not enough room for two.  And we all know those bullions have got to go!  I do like the colour mix of them though so need to keep that bit. Actually brain wave!  Whipped chain might be the ticket... not truly an isolated stitch mind you... But I'd hopefully be able to get the uniformity I need.  As theres no real rules to the challenge other than experimenting with isolated stitches its not like I'd be breaking the rules.  

Maybe thats what I need to remember - even if there were rules its my project I can do what I like!

Going forward... I wondered about using picots for his thighs... tacked down of course, can't have his thighs flopping about all over the place haha.  (Or maybe whipped spoke)  The other white area of his chest there I'm thinking raised cross stitch flowers on top in the blue.

Hmm maybe what I needed was just to 'talk' about it... Right I'm off to doing some unpicking!

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