Tag: Journal Sampler

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler. If you click on the thumbnail you can read about this section of the embroidery sampler and how I pieced together different fabrics as a foundation cloth. Stitches  This detail is illustrates an number of canvas work stitches used on Aida. …

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Stitches Used This little experiment is raised chain worked in perle #5 on hand dyed tea towel linen. The next sample is also raised chain but I elongated the bars and flipped them from side to side. …

Today I have two details from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Stitches Used This detail is a battlement type pattern stitched in back stitch using  hand dyed #8 cotton perle worked row upon row. Then between the rows I added lines of tied herringbone. The herringbone is …

This is a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler. As readers will remember this part of the sampler is a patchwork of fabrics that I pieced together in band. Stitches Used This detail is simple pattern darning using a variety of threads. I used cotton perle and silk …

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Stitches Used This detail is is simply cretan stitch worked row upon row in a hand dyed silk thread. The fabric Aida which has been hand dyed too. In between the rows I stitched bugle beads Detail …

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Stitches Used This detail is worked in perle #5 cotton and silk thread. It is a row of Stepped thread running stitch which has been laced with hand dyed silk thread. Either side of that is a …

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Stitches Used This is a section of pattern darning  which is just a form of running stitch arranged in patterns. I used hand dyed rayon thread on hand dyed linen. I enjoyed regularity of it yet seeing the …