Overgrown Knot Garden

March 25, 2010, 8:36 am
Filed under: Overgrown Knot Garden

Last year our chapter worked on a knot garden. Before I tackled the large garden, I practiced in a 4&1/2” x 3” area. My garden became a little overgrown with stitches! I fit all these stitches into that small space:

Far left walkway: Alternating Hungarian Diamond

Far right walkway: Triangle

Outer rectangular portion (listed in a clockwise manner starting at high noon):

Byzantine
Double Leviathan
French Knot on Stick
Spider Stitch
Rhodes
Byzantine
Cameo
Belly Button
Wound Cross
Shell & Cross

Corners of inner square portion: Criss Cross Hungarian

Inner diamond portion (listed in a clockwise manner starting at 1 pm):

Algerian Eye with Palenstra
Diamond Eyelet Variation
Smyrna Cross
Double Crossed Diamond

Inner diamond portion is filled in with Cross-stitch (white) & Mosaic (light green)

Center portion: Walneto

I liked some elements but not others. I knew I could do better!

Stitch books used:

The Needlepoint Book by Jo Ippolito Christensen
Stitches To Go by Suzanne Howren and Beth Robertson
Stitch Sampler by Lucinda Ganderton
Elegant Stitches by Judith Baker Montano