Tag: Alternating Barred Chain Stitch

Alternating Barred Chain Stitch

Hand embroidery stitches / Stitch Dictionary   / / / 11 Comments

Alternating Barred Chain stitch is one of the more interesting textured stitches to add to your hand embroidery repertoire of stitches. It is a member of the chain stitch family that produces a textured line.  I think that Alternating Barred Chain stitch is in some ways more interesting than its sister, Barred …

This is more than a hand embroidery sampler

Long Band Sampler   / / / / / / 10 Comments

As I sat to write this, I thought this is more than a embroidery sampler. It is not just the size which is 96 feet long it is that I have lived with parts of this cloth sitting in my sewing box for years and years as I started doing …