For the Love of Stitching Sampler - Band 132
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 7:29AM | Sharon B | 2 Comments | in For the Love of Stitching Band Sampler 
This row of stitching always intrigues people. It is created by working a band of herringbone stitch, then on the return row using the cross bars of the herrringbone as a foundation for buttonhole bar stitch. I have never seen it documented as I made it up but I am sure other people have thought to do it too.
If you are interested in developing new ways of thinking about stitches you might be interested in my online classes. Personal Library of Stitches is due to start October 6th. This class the course is structured in such a way that each week I take an aspect of design and apply it to working stitches. Using these techniques is how I came to imagine working a stitch like this
Thread:
A hand dyed perle cotton
Fabric:
This section of my sampler is worked on cream dress linen which is an uneven weave
Dyes:
Procion cold water dyes for the thread
Size:
All samples are 15 cm (6 inches) wide and stitched together in one long band sampler.
The sampler is currently 44 ft 5 inches or 533 inches (1353.83 centimetres) or 14.8 yards (13.53 metres) long and still being added to.
Date:
I started this section of the sampler in 2004 and completed it early 2005.
The back story:
This post is part of series documenting a hand embroidered band sampler, which now measures over 44 feet long and is still growing as I still stitch it. That is not a typo, if you want to know more about the sampler related posts are listed below and all posts in the series are in the category For the Love of Stitching band sampler
Other related posts
Introductory Post - how and why this sampler came to be made
A few questions answered about fabric choice and width
Extending and backing the sampler
Reader Comments (2)
This stitch is in my embroidery book ‘Embroidery Stitches’ by Mary Webb. She calls it buttonholed herringbone stitch. I used it in August on one of my crazy Monday blocks:
http://fat-quarter.blogspot.com/2009/08/buttonholed-herringbone-stitch.html
Yesterday I used it again on my new block, that will be on my blog next Monday. I made 2 buttonhole stitches on the bottom of the herringbone to get a round shape. I like the effect you created with the perle cotton.
Yes as I said in my post I am sure others have 'invented ' this stitch too and I call buttonholed herringbone as well.