For the Love of Stitching Sampler - Band 140

This band is a little unexpected so I have diagrammed it.   It is made up of a part of herringbone stitch which I have repeated along a line. The sections were worked close together. When worked like this they produce a wide interesting band.

I have not seen this variety documented but I am sure other stitchers have thought to do the same or a similar thing. I just call it a variety of herringbone. It is very simple but very effective as a border on things. I have used it often and it is quick to work particularly if you use a perle thread instead of wool. 

 

How this stitch was worked. 

Thread:

A hand dyed wool

Fabric:

This section of my sampler is worked on cream  dress linen 

Dyes:

Procion cold water dyes for the wool 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

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Sections 1 and 2 

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Sections 3 and 4 

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Section 5

For the Love of stitching Sampler Section 6