It’s time for another video tutorial as part of the Make Time Community, a chance to learn different styles of craft and try new things and ideas.  This month in the challenge our theme is “lines”.  Using any craft of choice to represent the word lines, it can be simple or complicated as you want, there are no right or wrong answers.   As someone who sews, my mind went straight to The Seed Stitch.  Lots and lots of different lines.

The Seed Stitch

I first discovered the seed stitch when I took on the Allotment Sewalong – it was one of the beds in the allotments and I loved it.  The amount of texture and layering that you can have with each stitch is amazing.  The whole project took me a couple of years but I have it finished and a tiny arsenal of stitches in my repertoire to use in new projects.

The Seed Stitch is formed by adding lots of same length stitches randomly next to each other in the space that you want to fill.  You can see here that I am starting to build up colours in tiny square boxes:

A cluse up of the seed stitch in green thread

Why Green?

The amount of green thread that I have left over from the allotment project is immense!  I decided that I should try and use up some of the “loose” ends.  Picking a varying amount of different greens that I felt I could use up in this project!

I found a tiny scrap of green fabric in the scraps box that was big enough for a 4″ hoop.  Pencilled a 3″ grid in the centre and just set of growing.

Watch the Full Tutorial here:

Here’s the Finished Seed Stitch

The reason for making a grid like this is for a future project I am planning.   The 9 square grid will turn into Noughts and Crosses board, I can’t wait to show you what I am making!

Now that I have finished this grid I am going to complete the project by turning the grid into a patchwork block.  I’ll be using more green fabric to log cabin around the square, much like I did in my Make Time Heart embroidery piece.

A green 0&X's board using the seed stitch

I love the final effect of this embroidery seeding stitch.  The variety of colours, all green, bundled up together to look like seeds.  I’m pretty sure this represents the Make Time Community challenge, lines, don’t you?

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The Make Time Community, a place to find our best creative self – it’s time for your crafting journey to grow! A warm and welcoming crafting community sharing in the joy of the things that we make. Joining with like minded people who want to cheer and champion the work we do in order to help build our confidence as creatives.
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