Buttonhole Stitch

This is my first exploration of the buttonhole stitch for Sharon's Stitchalong with the new templates. I used a single strand of variegated Caron thread, and started with the second from the outside circle.  then I repeated the next and finally the centre circle.

I then worked another circle round the outside, and finished off with a stem of buttonhole stitches facing each other.

The second circle is one from my greyscale Novas piece, where i stitched a circle of buttonhole round the outside, and then used this weeks Tast Stitch to combine the straight stitches.  i finished off with a part circle of spiderweb...which is not very good I dont think....now I have seen it enlarged.

These next samples of buttonholes are from samplers I have worked in the past when I was first learning embroidery.

I worked this sample of buttonhole stitch onto a whole picture which was actually a whole sampler of different stitches

These two bottom button hole stitches  are from the very first sampler when I began to learn embroidery in Gympie in 1994 from Debbie Mercer.  I still have this sampler and treasure it very much.