For the Love of Stitching Sampler - Band 162

Band description:

This design is a combination of canvas stitches. Crossed stitches included Rice stitch,cross stitch, Leviathan stitch, and Rhodes stitch. These are arranged between blocks of slanting straight stitches and sequins secured with a bead.    

Threads:

This band is worked in a hand dyed wool  and rayon ribbon floss.

 

Fabric:

This section is worked on Aida

Dyes:

Procion cold water dyes are used to dye the threads 

Size:

The sampler is 15 cm (6 inches) wide and all sections are 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:

This section of the sampler was finished in November 2005.

The back story:

This series is documenting a long hand embroidered band sampler, which is still growing as I still stitch it. More about the band sampler 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

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Section 7

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Section 8

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Section 9 

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Section 10

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Section 11

Comments

[Judy Harper]

This is fabulous! I've used these stitches with my needlepoint for many years - but never arrived at a combination like this. I must try it - especially since I now have some fine new threads from your Artfire store. This has lots of possibilities, (and an axcuse to use sequins.)