Embroidered Collage

  Buttonhole can be used in some wild ways, so Sharon only played with the basic stitch this week, and I followed her lead.  I did a couple of interesting patterns on my counted sampler and then used the stitch to good effect on a fabric piece.  I don't feel like I really pushed my boundaries this week, but I don't recall every having tried to make patterns or waves with buttonhole either, although I've certainly used it to outline shapes and in hardanger and as a detached stitch.  I actually did a little of that last onto the edges of my fabric piece - my length of perle cotton wasn't close to being used up after I laced it between the two stretches of buttonhole in white and it just felt like such a shame to cut it off for later when I could use it now.