For the Love of Stitching Sampler - Band 141
Monday, October 19, 2009 at 7:00AM | Sharon B | 1 Comment | in For the Love of Stitching Band Sampler 
This band of stitching is created by working the cross of herringbone stitch on top of each other. The movement and rhythm of the stitch is very similar to herringbone. If you look at band 140 you will see how the idea was developed. Once again I am sure someone else has thought to work this variation too but I have not seen it documented elsewhere.
Thread:
A hand dyed mercerised cotton
Fabric:
This section of my sampler is worked on cream dress linen
Dyes:
Procion cold water dyes for 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. Related posts are listed below and the series are categorised under 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
Reader Comments (1)
Hi Sharon, this might look like bargello if you worked it in different values of the same thread. Just a thought.