Stitches: This band of stitches illustrates two rows the first is crossed buttonhole and the second is Coral stitch Crossed buttonhole stitch Coral stitch Thread: A hand dyed mercerised cotton, which is about the same weight as DMC perle 5 thread which was hand dyed by me. Fabric: This section of …
Stitches: This band illustrates reversed fly stitch. Thread: Hand dyed rayon ribbon floss. Fabric: This section of the sampler is worked on tea towel linen which is not quite an even weave. Dyes: Procion cold water dyes Size: All samples are 15 cm (6 inches) wide and stitched together in …
Tanja Berlin of Berlin Embroidery Designs has provided free instructions and design for a small goldwork sampler. The instructions are brief and assume you have done goldwork before. If you are interested in this technique take some time to explore the goldwork tag over at Mary Corbet’s Needle n’ Thread …
Stitches: This band illustrates first a row of scroll stitch, second is a row of half buttonhole wheel stitch, and the last row is stem stitch. Thread: All stitches are worked in a hand dyed mercerised cotton which is the same weight and thickness as a DMC perle 8 thread. This …
The Embroiderers Guild of America publish a regular free projects under their Stitch-to-Learn series. The series is delivered as pdf files so you will need Acrobat Reader to open and read these files. You can download a free reader on the Acrobat site. An Introductory Program to Surface Stitchery is …
Stitches: This band consists of 3 rows of stitches the first being Cretan stitch worked tightly together, the row is chain stitch and the last row is Satin stitch worked in straight line Thread: The first row is a hand dyed perle cotton, size 5. The second row is a hand …
I recently rounded up all the sampler pieces I worked last year and pieced them together then added them to my For the love of stitching band sampler. I had an email asking how I back my sampler and I promised to blog what I did, this is what I …
