Is a line of whipped spiders wheels which sit in a half circle of buttonhole stitches. Thread: A hand dyed silk Fabric: This section of the sampler is worked on tea towel linen which is not quite an even weave. Dyes: Procion cold water dyes for silk thread Size: All samples are 15 …
Stitches: This seam is embellished with a row of buttonhole stitch, which has a detached chain stitch on every second arm. Thread: DMC perle thread #5. Placement and Foundation Fabric: This seam is between piece 3 and piece 9 on the diagram used when I introduced block 5 In the same article I …
I was sent this photo by email with no information about it. No artist name, no details as to where, when, what or how just the photograph. I was intrigued and immediately was pounding out search terms in google. Terms such as “tree sweater”, “tree cosy”, crochet + tree “guerilla …
This ‘band is actually two bands. The first is of cable chain stitch and the second is a Triple Palestrina stitch Thread: The cable chain is worked in a hand dyed cotton (crochet thread), and the triple Palestrina is a hand dyed soft Danish cotton which feels and works up in a similar way …
Stitches: This seam is created with a foundation row of Cretan stitch. Between the V shapes are two chain stitches with a fly stitch at the base. On each of the Cretan stitch arms is a small bead. Thread: DMC perle thread #5 Placement and Foundation Fabric: This seam is between piece 1 and …
This is a line of laced herringbone stitch. Thread: The foundation row of herring bone is worked in a hand dyed perle thread #8 and it is laced with a hand dyed thread that is actually lampshade fringing. It is very similar to Bunka thread Fabric: This section of the sampler is …
Stitches: In order to embellish this seam I first worked a row of straight stitches in an arrow formation. Then, on every second arm I worked two detached chain stitches and used straight stitch again as a central prong to act as a stem for a little flower pattern. These are alternated …
