TAST Week Fourteen: Stem Stitch

Week fourteen of the TAST Challenge hosted by Sharon Boggon at Pin Tangle  is the stem stitch.  In Sharon's post about this stitch she shares a great tutorial how to work the stitch and what differences can be achieved by changing the length of the individual stitches.

On my sampler, I chose to work my line of stem stitch using a variegated cotton embroidery floss.  I like the effect that the colour changes in the thread gives to the look of the line of stitches.

Stem stitch is a very useful and versatile stitch and I really like using it.  If you remember, I used it to neaten up the shapes of my first attempt at needle turn applique.  I think it really helped cover up the wobbly edges.

It was also used to create some of the flower stems in the same embroidery too.

This week, I have been working to finish off my second embroidery project from the Gail Pan workshop I attended in September and, it is coming along quite nicely.

By coincidence, a lot of the stitching I have left to work will be stem stitch as all the outside borders of the boxes are worked in stem stitch!!