I started stitching on my blocks again today. Hopefully I will finish a few in the next couple of days. I have a three day weekend coming up and plan to accomplish more stitching.

I started this row of stitching with the herringbone stitch and then stopped to read a few blogs and noted Sharon's TAST stitch that week was called the wheatear. I have never tried it but decided it looked interesting. According to Sharon the " Wheatear stitch is a great stitch to explore and interpret in all sorts ways. It consists of two straight stitches worked on the diagonal with a chain looped through the base."

Then as I was reading a few more blogs I came upon Elizabeth's version. Still a little different but very interesting. At that point I went back to my block and thought about what to do next with the herringbone stitch I had started and a light went off in my head! Why not try a variation of both Sharon's and Elizabeth's stitch.

I really like the look of this seam and will be using it again. I love when a new stitch comes to life!

I added a few more flowers to my block today. I still need to fill in a few more spots and then it will be finished. Some of my projects just call out to be fully encrusted and this is one of them!

I was able to make three more blocks out of my cut up Round Robin Block. The colors are so bright and cheerful I can't wait to embellish them.

When you cut apart a larger block sometimes the motifs are so close to each other that you don't get a lot of seam area. I will have to work with this butterfly to make it look balanced in the middle of this block.