Clothscapes-part 4, flower basket stitches

Guess I'm needing to give myself alittle nudge on the somewhat lengthy clothscapes project, although 3 out of the seven needle points are done, and 2 out of the seven need only minor finishing, it's seeming to take longer than expected.

I thought I'd introduce some of the stitches in the pictures, most are pretty basic and not that difficult to do. In the above picture, you see the turkey stitch in the cattails, the pinkish flower, and along with the orange flower. The turkey stitch is a loop stitch, it can be of various sizes, it is simply held above the canvas until the 2nd stitch is done. The second stitch anchors the first, the third anchors the second, etc. Interesting that one cattail is cut loops and the other isn't.
The pale yellow flowers that appear to be x, is the Leviathan stitch, it starts as a x, adding the + over the x. It creates a star like stitch.

More turkey stitches, but the salmon colored stalk flowers are french knots, so easy to do but looks complex. Coming up the material with the thread, turn needle point down towards the fabric, grasp the tread close to fabric, wrap the needle starting with the close end of the thread, stitch back down the fabric by the enter point. If done right the thread is pulled through the twists creating a knot. You can twist as much as you want.

The brown branches are the outline stitch. It starts with the running stitch, you return to the start with fresh thread and weave in the running stitch, going under the sash and then over to go under the next sash.

The other variation of the brown branches is done in the chain stitch. Come up with thread and go back down through fabric, skip up and return back up through the fabric (create a sash on the back). Before you tighten the loop from the first stitch, make sure the returning needle is inside the loop, it makes a circle chain held by the next chain, so on and so forth....

The woven basket is the satin stitch. The satin is used as a filling stitch, basically up the fabric, down the fabric from the lines of the pattern, notice in the stems on the table, the satin stitch widens and narrows. The satin stitch is used in limits, it can't fill in large areas. The dark brown color of the basket is the seed stitch, or half a cross stitch.

These are only a few. C&G Design.