Like band 141 this band of stitching is created by working the cross of herringbone stitch on top of each other but this time it is sprayed out like a fan. The movement and rhythm of the stitch is very similar to herringbone. If you look at band 140 you will see how the idea was developed. I am sure someone else has thought to work this variation too but I have not seen it documented.
Thread:
A hand dyed cotton
Fabric:
This section of my sampler is worked on cream dress linen which is an uneven weave
Dyes:
Procion cold water dyes for the cotton thread
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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All posts in the series are in the category the Love of Stitching Band Sampler.
Hi Mary Frances – I have sent you an email about this as its a puzzle to me.
Ok, I have a weird – and probably geeky complaint – but since you’ve moved over to this blog, I can’t see a lot of your pictures in my RSS feed. I use google Reader.
Any idea why? I don’t mind clicking over to the post sometimes, but if I’m scanning, I KNOW I miss things.
The funny thing is some of your images show up. Hmmmmm…..odd.
(just fyi this is one of the posts I can’t see any of the images)
Sharon, these herringbone bits are points!