{"id":9126,"date":"2020-03-01T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:00:14","slug":"joining-stitch-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/joining-stitch-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining stitch sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"

They have a lot of names including joining stitches, randa embroidery, fagoting, insertion stitches, bridging stitches. I’m in the process of making a fabric concertina, “Adrastea<\/a>,” and realized I needed to try out some joining stitches and threads, and to practice before stitching my book pages together.<\/p>\n

I’ve been holding onto a gift bag of cotton squares with William Morris prints. Not really my style but perfect for this joining sampler. I ironed them into 3.5 inch squares using a template. Then stitched two together to make a double sided square ready for joining. There were 42 in the bag so I have enough for 21 double sided squares to join.<\/p>\n

I’ve been exploring stitches online and on YouTube. I posted about Sushma’s YouTube channel before. She just added another randa video<\/a>, which was the first join I tried on my sampler.<\/p>\n

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The second stitch came from a YouTube playlist called Bridging stitch<\/a> by mohd shafeeq. The video I watched is by Anamil Hawae:<\/p>\n

\u00d8\u00a8\u00d8\u00ba\u00d8\u00aa\u00d9\u0160<\/a> \u00d8\u00aa\u00d8\u00ae\u00d8\u00af\u00d9\u2026\u00d9\u0160<\/a> \u00d8\u00ac\u00d9\u201e\u00d8\u00a7\u00d8\u00a8\u00d8\u00a9<\/a> \u00d8\u00a3\u00d9\u02c6<\/a> \u00d9\u201a\u00d9\u0081\u00d8\u00b7\u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u2020<\/a> \u00d8\u00a8\u00d9\u2026\u00d9\u201e\u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u201a\u00d9\u0160\u00d8\u00a9<\/a> \u00d8\u00b3\u00d9\u2021\u00d9\u201e\u00d8\u00a9<\/a> \u00d9\u02c6\u00d8\u00ae\u00d9\u0081\u00d9\u0160\u00d9\u0081\u00d8\u00a9<\/a> \/<\/a>\u00d8\u00ae\u00d8\u00af\u00d9\u2026\u00d9\u0160<\/a> \u00d9\u2021\u00d8\u00b0<\/a> \u00d9\u2026\u00d9\u201e\u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u201a\u00d9\u0160\u00d8\u00a9<\/a><\/p>\n

I couldn’t follow her stitches very well, but I made it work as best I could. I like its airiness compared to the density of the earlier trials.<\/p>\n

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I don’t want to go to all the effort of making the sampler, and then forget what stitches and threads were used! So I’m going to keep track here. First one was on Xenotopias, so outside sampler.<\/p>\n