This is as much as I got done in the assigned week. I kept thinking I would add something else or take something out, but I never got around to it, and now I don't remember clearly what I was trying to do. I can see I worked a spiral, worked the chain with picots on either side, and worked the chain zigzag.
The background cloth is another piece of tea dyed dish towel. The Watercolour shows up a little better than the Wildflower thread, but there's not much to see. Sadly I didn't put a lot of time or thought into this assignment. It was Thanksgiving week and I was juggling two overlapping online classes. The picots are lost in the terry loops, and because they're placed randomly along the irregular lines, they're hard to spot anyway and not worth the effort IMHO. I'll simply say the upward spikes have bullion picots and downward the chains.
Weeks 41 - 44: Checkered/Magic Chain, Woven Cross,
Magic Chain: 3 rows of chain just under TAST '10.
Woven Cross: above and below the single line of beads. I considered weaving the lettering which I added later, but ran out of time and steam.
Crossed Feather Stitch: the top row, worked in Wildflowers.
Plaited Feather: bottom rows. If you look at the tangled center, you can maybe see I worked the plaited version between 2 rows of straight-sided feather stitch.
Even though my work was lackluster toward the end, I feel a sense of accomplishment for having completed the challenge and extreme gratitude to Sharon B for leading us through this wonderful learning adventure. Tuesdays will not be the same without a new stitch to look forward to. I'm thinking I might pick up the ones I missed in the original TAST challenge, and after that I'll probably tackle the Stitch Files.
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