Stitch:
This band illustrates experiments with Satin stitch and Padded satin stitch.
Instructions on how to do these stitches are in my stitch dictionary
Thread:
A hand dyed baby knitting wool, cotton (crochet thread), hand dyed wool which is about the same weight as Appletons, hand dyed Danish cotton hand dyed silk, perle 5 DMC and ribbon floss.
All threads are hand dyed by me. The Danish cotton, silk and hand dyed wool were purchased in bulk from weavers supplies.
Fabric:
This section of the sampler is a dress linen which is not quite an even weave, hand painted with procion cold water dyes.
Dyes:
Procion cold water dyes for the cotton, wool and silk threads
Disperse dyes (also known as transfer dyes) on the synthetic threads such as baby wool and knitting ribbon.
Size:
All samples are 15 cm (6 inches) wide and stitched together in one long band sampler.
Sampler FAQ and back story
For the full back story on this piece visit the Sampler FAQ.
All posts in the series are in the category the Love of Stitching Band Sampler.
Sharon, for some reason fellow stitchers are shy of commenting on this one! As you know I am doing TAST on Stitchinfingers. I am doing this as a band sampler so I have all my samples together. There is more info about it on the TAST section of my Flickr page.
Can I pick your brain? I’d like to start a sampler like this- yours is very inspiring. But I don’t really embroider (hence wanting to start!) – what should I use for the fabric background? Does it matter?