For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Band 128

This band of is created by working a line of  herringbone stitch and tying it with detached chain Thread: Perle thread #8 for the herringbone and a  hand dyed mercerised cotton for the detached chain stitch. Fabric: This section of my sampler is worked on cream dress linen Dyes: Procion cold water …

For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Band 113

Like the previous section this is a self contained little unit I added to the strip. It is a highly textured area set against some pulled thread work and flat canvas stitches. Stitches: This area has a snake like line worked in casalguidi stitch which is surrounded withbullion knots, buttonhole …

For the love of stitch band sampler section 5

Over the next couple of weeks I will talk about each area of the  For Love of Stitching Band Sampler which was worked in April 1998 on 26 count linen. It is 6 inches wide In section 5 I took a different turn with my sampler experiments as I decided to work …

For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Sections 3 and 4

I have come to another join in the For Love of Stitching band sampler. It feels like I was documenting the last band for ever and day. I hope it was not too boring. As I explained when I introduced the last piece most of the stitches worked in the …