Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday.

Last week we started this month’s stitch along with some different shapes and 3 fabrics. One fabric was to be considered ugly while one fabric complimented the ugly fabric and the other one contrasted with it. If you missed my post from last week you can check out how I began here at Stitch Along Sunday – August Week 1.

The rules for this week can be found here on Ruth’s blog at rules for August week 2. As well take a look at Ruth’s post for Stitch Along Sunday – week 2 and also the Stitch Along Sunday Gallery where other people’s work has been posted.

Just one rule this week – add some abstract stitching. It might be only one rule but it does require a bit of thinking about what to do and how to go about it especially on my piece that is quite busy to begin with.

I thought I would give these colours a try for stitching and then ended up ripping them out as they just didn’t work – they were lost in the fabric.

3 spools of thread being auditioned for stitching

Thread options

I ended up using a variegated teal thread and 3 different stitches to create 3 abstract designs on the piece. I have never really played much with the decorative stitches on my machine so it was kind of fun. Two of the designs I ended up stitching over 3 times to get them to show up. This teal thread wasn’t the best choice either for standing out.

Stitch #1

art piece with first bit of decorative stitching

Decorative stitch #1

Stitch #2

little art pier with second lot of stitching

Decorative stitch #2

Stitch #3

little art quilt with third decorative stitch done

Decorative stitching #3

I am not a 100% sure I like what I did but it is done and this little exercise is a way to get us to try something new and I have.

See you next week.

Happy Quilting!

Daphne Lewis on 11 August 2013 at 20:47

Beautiful decorative stitching!! I’ve only used the designs separately on my machine but really like what you’ve done with combining them.
- Jen on 12 August 2013 at 07:49
  
  Thanks Daphne, I rarely use the decorative stitches so this was fun.
Juliet Wood on 12 August 2013 at 08:59

What a bold experiment. I like this and I really appreciate your honesty about how you got there. I like the teal but if you think it wasn’t good what would have been better? Black?
- Jen on 12 August 2013 at 12:56
  
  Juliet, not really sure what I would have used – maybe a chocolate brown or black. In the end I do like the teal with going over the stitches several times to make them bolder.