Freeform Hand Embroidery Sampler detail 680 and 681

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Click on the thumbnail for an article  about this section of the embroidery. Stitches Used This is a sample of chained cross  stitch. It was stitch number 79 of the TAST stitches. I worked it on hand painted …

Detail 678 and 679 on my Freeform Hand Embroidery Sampler

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Click on the thumbnail for an article  about this section of the embroidery. Stitches Used This detail is is a version of feathered chain stitch worked in cotton thread on hand dyed Aida cloth. Here I took the idea …

Detail 676 and 677 on my Freeform Hand Embroidery Sampler

This is a small detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Click on the thumbnail to be taken to the post about this section of the embroidery sampler and find out how I pieced together different fabrics as a foundation cloth. Stitches this small detail is another example of …

Detail 674 and 675 on my Freeform Hand Embroidery Sampler

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler. If you click on the thumbnail you can read about this section of the embroidery sampler and how I pieced together different fabrics as a foundation cloth. Stitches  This detail is illustrates an number of canvas work stitches used on Aida. …

Detail 672 and 673 on my Freeform Hand Embroidery Sampler

Today I have a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Stitches Used This little experiment is raised chain worked in perle #5 on hand dyed tea towel linen. The next sample is also raised chain but I elongated the bars and flipped them from side to side. …

Detail 670 and 671 on my Freeform Hand Embroidery Sampler

Today I have two details from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler Stitches Used This detail is a battlement type pattern stitched in back stitch using  hand dyed #8 cotton perle worked row upon row. Then between the rows I added lines of tied herringbone. The herringbone is …

Detail 669 on my Freeform Hand Embroidery Sampler

This is a detail from  section 50 on my Love of Stitching Band Sampler. As readers will remember this part of the sampler is a patchwork of fabrics that I pieced together in band. Stitches Used This detail is simple pattern darning using a variety of threads. I used cotton perle and silk …