The “Take a Stitch Tuesdays” challenge started in January 2007 and finished in December 2007.
Each week I took a stitch and suggested people experiment with it, push it a little and see what possibilities the stitch holds.
There is a Flickr Take a stitch Tuesday group.
Here is a list of stitches in the challenge :
Week 1 Herringbone, week 2 Buttonhole week 3 Detached chain stitch , week 4 Cretan stitch, week 5 Chevron stitch, week 6 Algerian eye stitch week 7 Feather stitch, week 8 Fly stitch, week 9 Cross stitch, week 10 Barred chain and alternating barred chain, week 11 Up and down buttonhole, week 12 couching ,week 13 Knotted Cretan, week 14 Bonnet stitch, week 15 Oyster stitch, week 16 Palistrina stitch, week 17 running stitch, week 18 Woven and whipped wheels, week 19 Basque stitch, week 20 Butterfly chain stitch, week 21 Crossed buttonhole, week 22 Satin stitch week 23 Wheatear stitch , week 24 French knots, week 25 Long and short stitch , week 26 Half Chevron , week 27 Bullion knots, week 28 Sheaf Stitch , week 29 Arrow stitch , week 30 Buttonhole wheels , week 31 Cast on stitch , week 32 Crested Chain , week 33 scroll stitch, week 34 Portuguese knotted stem stitch, week 35 Shisha Stitch, week 36 Cable Chain stitch, week 37 Rice stitch and Square Boss stitch, week 38 Knotted Buttonhole Band, week 39 Reversed Buttonhole Bar, week 40 Linked double chain, week 41 Lace Border Stitch, week 42 Twisted satin Stitch, week 43 Drizzle stitch, week 44 Zig Zag Spanish knotted stitch, week 45 Pekinese stitch, week 46 Chain Braid stitch, week 47 Thorn Stitch, week 48 knotted cable chain stitch, week 49 pistil stitch, week 50 Berry Stitch week 51 Chained Bar week 52 Spanish feather stitch
The same list in alphabetical order of stitch
Algerian eye stitch week 6
Barred chain and alternating barred chain week 10
Berry Stitch week 50
Butterfly chain stitch week 20
Chain Braid stitch week 46
Chained bar week 51
Drizzle stitch week 43
Knotted Buttonhole Band week 38
knotted cable chain stitch week 48
Lace Border Stitch week 41
Linked double chain week 40
Pekinese stitch week 45
Pistil stitch week 49
Portuguese Stem stitch week 34
Reversed Buttonhole Bar week 39
Rice stitch and Square Boss stitch week 37
Spanish feather stitch week 52
Thorn Stitch week 47
Twisted satin Stitch week 42
Up and down buttonhole week 11
Woven and whipped wheels week 18
Zig Zag Spanish knotted stitch week 44
Here is the list of Challengers who have completed or are attempting to complete:
Neki of A Movable Feast
Pat of Altering thoughts
Annie of Annie’s Crazy World
Susan of Art of Textiles
Ati of Ati on the crazy road
Vero of Au Fil du Jardin
Penny of Back Valley Seasons
Emmy Schoonbeek of Cramzy
Maureen of CrazyQstitcher
Doreen of Creative Meanderings
Barbara of Embroidery overlaps
Kate of Everyday Revelations
Lynne of Faffing About
Cecilia of Faseraktiv - Fiberactive
Jakkie of Fibers n paints
Freda Butler has Freda’s Photos on Flickr
Freddy of Freddy Toimetised
Helend has a flickr site
Helina who has a flickr site
JoWynn on flickr and her blog is Parkview 616
Margaret of Life, needlework and everything
Margaret is Little works of Art on flickr
Luci has a flickr account and Luci’s Creative Adventures
Mary Anne of Magpies Mumblings
Mady is Mehdc’s Photos on flickr
Norma of Norma’s Needleworkz
Fiona of Never Ending Lists
Juli of Orange Rug Yarn Musings
Julita of the Pin Gallery
Elizabeth of Quieter Moments
Dy of Random Applique
Rene O on flickr
Connie of The Scoop, Score and Deal
Sequana has a flickr site
Kay Susan of Smockery
Mady of Snow days
Sue Wild is suewilduk on flickr
Susan of Susan’s blog
Tenar of Tenar’s Cave
Marty of Textiles in Time
Susan of TextileXplorations
The Sparodic Packrat
Carol-Anne of Threads Across the Web
Andrea of Up too late, as usual …
Véro de La Fare has a flickr site and a blog Au Fil du Jardin
Vivian has a flickr site Vivian in stitches and a blog of the same name.
Nancilyn of What Bloggles My Mind and her flickr site Fiberdabbler
November 8, 2006 at 5:20 am
“Take a Stitch Tuesdays” sounds very interesting… and like it will be a lot of fun. I’m really enjoying learning new stitches and experimenting with them in your personal library of stitches class, so I think this will be a perfect “continuation” of that. I definitely plan on participating!
November 16, 2006 at 8:20 am
I would love to participate in the book discussion. There are so many art related books that are non tutorial and yet so inspiring. Anyone interested in The Bloomsbury Group or Dadaism? How about the true Bohemians?
November 25, 2006 at 7:04 am
Hello, I would love to participate to your “Take a Stitch Tuesdays”, so please let me know when you start !
Also, could you tell me what sort of threads you’re going to use, as I live in a country where there isn’t much choice, I should manage to find them before we start…
Thanks a lot, and hope to “hear” you soon !
November 25, 2006 at 8:49 am
No special threads are required as everyone wil be folowing their own path. Let me know if you have anymore questions.
November 27, 2006 at 1:52 am
i would love to join Tuesday Challenge. Where do I sign up!
November 29, 2006 at 9:56 am
I would love to be a part of take a stitch tuesday. Please let me know when you start!!
thanks and love your blog
Carol
December 1, 2006 at 7:19 am
I’d love to take part in this challenge. I’ve been wanting to do a stitch book for ages, and I think this is the exact fire I need to get (and keep) it going. Looking forward to it.
December 2, 2006 at 7:29 am
Sounds like a great way to start each day! I’m definitely in. Thanks for hosting this, Sharon!
December 2, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Please inform me about the Take a Stitch Tues. I love to learn more from you and another challenge.
December 2, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Please sign me up for your Take a Stitch Tuesdays. Some of my friends at Quilt Studio had a great learning time with the 100 Stitches project. I’ve done fancy stitches in needlepoint but want to learn how to embellish quilts.
December 3, 2006 at 5:23 am
Linda and Granny Fran –
I have added you to my email out list –
December 3, 2006 at 7:04 am
I would like to have a go at this but am not sure about blog, flicker account. Can you take part by email alone?
December 3, 2006 at 7:43 am
Helend - there is no reason why you can’t take part without a blog or flickr account - but it means people can’t see your work - a flickr acount is free and it means everyone can see what you have done and you can get feedback - you are welcome to join no matter what but I am encouraging people to post their images -
December 4, 2006 at 3:39 am
This sounds like a fun idea, sign me up please.
December 4, 2006 at 5:52 am
Penny I have added you to my list
December 5, 2006 at 2:13 am
sharon,
this sounds good for me. would you please include me in your list? I will send you the blog link when I locate the address. thanks
December 5, 2006 at 7:41 pm
PLease add me to the list. I have a flikr account
Thanks Renee Cohen
December 6, 2006 at 1:19 am
Sign me up!
December 6, 2006 at 2:34 am
Hi Sharon
I hope to get caught up on my 6 weeks of stitching before Jan. and would like to join you in your Tues. stitching.
Hugs
Freda
December 6, 2006 at 3:21 am
Please include me on the list for take a stitch tuesday challange. I have not been doing very much stitching and this will get me going again. I look forward to the new year and begining this challange.
December 6, 2006 at 5:03 am
This is just the thing. Thank you for starting this I’m excited about learning more stitches.
Shay
December 6, 2006 at 7:30 am
Hi all thanks for signing up -it should be a great challenge - I have added you to my list
December 6, 2006 at 7:35 am
I would like to be notified of Stitch Tuesday, please. Thank you!
December 6, 2006 at 8:04 am
I definitely intend to participate and would love to be added to the list. Thanks.
December 6, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Oh oh, I will be stitching along, please join em in and thank you
December 6, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Sign me up please Sharon.
Pat
September 1, 2007 at 1:35 am
Hi Sharon,
Could you please add me to the list? I´ll try to catch you up!
Already posted TAST 1 on my blog.
Thanks!
September 12, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Dear Sharon, I had to stop for some time, but I decide to go one from week 22, I want to complete the challenge!Thank you for doing such a great job!
October 4, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Is there a way to get a print out of your Tuesday Stitches, I am just now starting to learn this and would love to add these to my library and do them, but I don’t think I should join now as I would not be able to catch up as it is so late in the year.
If there is a fee, let me know about that also
Barb Hoffman
October 4, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hi Barb - sorry to say you need to go each page and print it out as I have not put them in a single document.Just click on the links above and they will take you to each week.
October 10, 2007 at 3:37 am
UNICEF has a charming needlework design of Santa and reindeer on one of the Christmas cards they’re offering in this year’s catalog. they have an embroidery enhanced frame and a journal,too.Some of the card designs that aren’t originally needlework just beg to be translated into it. Can’t give you a link, but definitely worth Googling UNICEF+Christmas cards.
October 10, 2007 at 4:06 am
OOPS! A coworker here has just advised me that the catalog of cards and gifts I wrote about is at http://www.unicefusa.org and may not be in the catalogs published in other countries. I don’t know why they wouldn’t be, but they’re still worth searching out.
November 15, 2007 at 8:26 am
Take a stitch Tuesday is a great idea! I just stumbled onto it, so it’s too late for me to be part of the challenge, but I’m going to work through it on my own as I can. Thanks for providing it, Sharon.
December 10, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I have heard a lot about TAST. Is this going to continue next year. I would really like to participate in this.
I will begin to work the stitches on my own, also. It is never too late to learn something new or refresh something learned at another time.
Thank you for all you have to offer.
Janie
December 11, 2007 at 3:16 am
Still attempting to get this cahallenge completed even though I’ve been ill recently, will get some pictures posted this week, thanks for your kind comments Sharon on my blog
http://littleworksofart.blogspot.com
December 11, 2007 at 6:16 am
Janie yes I will be leaving the page up as there are few people who started late or are planing to do what you are doing
December 26, 2007 at 5:37 am
Came across your challenge recently and wished I’d been in at the start as I love hand stitching. I would go through them on my own but I need the stiumulous of a challenge to motivate me. Are you doing another challenge?
December 27, 2007 at 5:08 am
Annette
I am having another challange for my regular blog readers. This year is the Take it Furhter challenge
Unfortunately the sign up period has closed although I will replace drop outs with people who want to do it as people drop out which is bound to happen. You may want to follow along anyway
You do need a blog or flickr site that you can use for images of your work
Do you have one?
For your future reference The challenge information page URL is
http://sharonb.wordpress.com/take-it-further-challenge/
and my blog where the challenge will posted each month is
http://sharonb.wordpress.com/
December 31, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Hi Sharon,
letting you know that I have finished all the TAST Stitches before the years end….Thank you and Happy New Year. Hugs annie
http://loopylace.com/anniescrazyworld/?cat=16
February 7, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Hi Sharon
I’m really behind in catching up, but I am still trying to get there. Recently you asked for an update as to how many were still working the TAST lessons. I’m one that is still plodding along.
Thanks for all the work and time you have spent during this project. It is always so much fun to read, and plan on working through everything you send.
Hugs
Dee in Ontario. Can
March 11, 2008 at 1:25 am
Hi Sharon,
Thank you for a great site.
Living in the Netherlands-Vlissingen and even here a lot of quilting ladies enjoy it.
March 12, 2008 at 4:48 am
Hi Sharon,
Last januari I started with TAST. I’m planning to do one stitch every week in the same week you did it last year. So far I finished every stitch (I only skipped the cross stitch). I put photo’s on my blog with the label TAST. Your site is a great help for me, thanks for your challenge.