Originally posted 2008-10-31 07:05:21. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Using a thread as your inspiration is a fantastic way to develop a color scheme, and one which you can do no matter how confident you are about picking out colors.
This month’s Twinchy Challenge encouraged you to pick a color of Watercolours, find some threads which go with it and then stitch away.
This Twinchy is based on the quilt block Attic Windows. The square is 24 stitches wide and uses a stitch called Staircase, a Byzantine variation. The two sides are 12 stitches wide and meet at a mitered corner. They are stitched in Half-framed Scotch and Laid Cross. I think the Scotch works, but the Cross does not. But this block is so simple you can put in any stitches you like.
by Nancy White, used by permission
Nancy White did this charming Twinchy. She describes it this way:
“I have been interested in Jean Hilton stitches lately so I decided to try for the first time one of her rather challenging stitches, the Double Fan Doubled stitch. I am quite pleased with how it turned out. My Watercolour is Elderberry, one of my favorites.”
The original Watercolour Twinchy, published here, used Scotch Stitches, alternating between Watercolours and a solid. That’s about as simple as you can get. If you wanted to see how other colors worked, you could use more than one thread in the alternating blocks.
Finally I did a Twinchy using this design of a leaf quilt block. Using mostly Mosaics, it has a very delicate look. But I can’t find it at the moment, and will add it later this morning once I track it down. The desk isn’t too messy, but I think I stashed it someplace.
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