Using gesso as a page base will add texture and strength to your page. If you add strength it means you can have more fun adding stuff! By stuff I mean items like fabric, lace, textured papers and threads. These photos are of pieces where textiles of one sort or …
Stitches This band of stitching is made up of an arrangement of straight stitches and detached chain stitch. Thread This band is worked in a cotton thread that is same thickness as perle #8 thread. The thread was hand dyed by me. Fabric: Linda, 27cnt evenweave fabric produced by Zweigart …
Detail: This seam was first covered with a line of herringbone stitch that was then laced with silk ribbon. I then worked a second row of stitches which is a type of detached chains stitch. The V formation is made by lacing a thread through the tie of detached stitch when …
Gosh it feels strange to be writing about this part of the Sampler at the moment. I mentioned when I introduced section 26, that just as I was completing the sampler Labour won the election, I stitched it on the panel to mark the date. We had a then, new …
Detail: This area of the block was first layered with a hand dyed lace and the scallop edge of the lace runs along the edge of the seam. I first worked a row of cast on stitch loops in a hand dyed soft cotton (a bit like flower thread) and …
Band 352 was the end of the crazy quilted section of the sampler and we return to a more regular format with section 26. Section 26 was finished in November 2007 just as Labour won the election. I stitched the last comment as I watched the broadcast of the count …
Detail: This seam was decorated with first making 3 Japanese ribbon stitch or Leaf stitches using silk ribbon. Next I added 3 straight stitches worked in Perle cotton and between those tucked 2 straight stitches worked in cotton stranded floss . I then add some beads What is the story? This …
