Month: January 2009

Stitches:  This band illustrates first Herringbone, then a line of Back stitch, followed by a row of Chevron Stitch, then a line of Running Stitch and finally a row of Buttonhole . These are all basic stitches.    Thread: A hand dyed mercerised cotton, which is about the same weight as perle 5 DMC Fabric: This section of the …

As I mentioned yesterday this next section is dated 1996 – Jan 1998 Stitches:  The first band is raised chain stitch. Being the first band, raised and on the edge of the sampler it is a bit worse for wear.  As I explained yesterday this sampler was used to demonstrate …

As I mentioned yesterday I have hit the first join in the sampler. (For those who have not read the introductory post  this band sampler is made up of a series of smaller samplers pieced together.) In other words I have covered the first section Before moving on to the next …

This section of the band sampler is free form. The main stitches are experiments with various form of chain stitch and knotted stitches. It is the last area of this sampler before we move on to the sampler stitched to the band. Stitches:  This band illustrates experiments with chain stitch, double …

This section of the band sampler is fairly free form with numerous hand embroidery stitches and hand dyed threads of various fibers used. It can’t be divided into into ‘bands ‘ as such but I am describing the sections as best I can. Stitches:  This band illustrates experiments with chain stitch, and …

Stitches:  This band illustrates experiments with buttonhole wheel, chain stitch, Cast on Stitch,  Double cast on stitch,  twisted chain stitch, Whipped Spider’s Wheel stitch, French knot, bullion knot, detached chain stitch, Palestrina knot, Oyster stitch and  Basque knot Thread: In this section DMC perle thread 3, 5, and 8 is used. Also DMC floss a hand …