This band of stitching is created by working a line of herringbone stitch and then at the base and the top of each section I filled the gap with needleweaving.
I have never seen this stitch in a book as I made it up but I am sure other people have thought to do this as well.
Thread:
Perle thread #5, and #8. The thread used to needleweave was hand dyed.
Fabric:
This section of my sampler is worked on cream dress linen which is not an even weave
Dyes:
Procion cold water dyes for the threads.
Size:
All samples are 15 cm (6 inches) wide and stitched together in one long band sampler.
The sampler is currently 44 ft 5 inches or 533 inches (1353.83 centimetres) or 14.8 yards (13.53 metres) long and still being added to.
Date:
I started this section of the sampler in 2004 and completed it early 2005.
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Hi Ruth pleased you are looking forward to the class and yes it will be Wednesday – in Australia
That is a very interesting one Sharon. I am so looking forward to Tuesday. Will it actually be Wednesday here in Australia?