Terry Dryden Needlework Designs - Color Texture Stitch

Monday, January 18, 2010 at 02:41PM
Terry Dryden in "In Stitches" Column, Buttonhole Stitch, Contemporary Needlework, Designing with Texture, FUNKY ROSE, Funky Rose, In Stitches column, NeedlePointers magazine, River Silks Ribbon, This and That

Thanks for visiting! I know it has been awhile.....again. I have been posting infrequently at best. During the last three weeks I've finished the Olivia Ostrich instruction book (shown in my most recent post). Now I am in the middle of the Funky Rose instructions which will be a pilot class in March. One of the features of this design is a large buttonhole stitch rose stitched with River Silks 7mm ribbon.

In the process of writing the instructions I have been creating stitch diagrams and graphs and have been reviewing all that I have previously created using buttonhole stitches. And there it was.......my very first "In Stitches" column in the May 2007 issue of Needle Pointers magazine. The sample I stitched for it has lots of examples of various used for buttonhole so I thought it might be fun to show them again here. And here are the basic stitch diagrams for reference. I hope you get some ideas you're able to use in your projects. Buttonhole stitches add lots of texture as you can see.

Have a great week!