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 wheel stitch, cast on stitch, double cast on stitch, French knots, Oyster stitch, whipped spider’s wheel stitch,and woven spiders wheel stitch.

Wooden beads are liberally used throughout the piece. 

The heavily textured area sits against areas of single faggot stitch which is on page 60 of Pulled Thread Embroidery by Moyra McNeill

Threads:

Threads include DMC perle thread #5, and #8 a hand dyed mercerised cotton,cotton chenille, coton a broder, a hand dyed wool which is about the same weight as Appletons, a soft Danish cotton which feels and works up in a similar way to coton a broder and is matt with no sheen. Also there is hand dyed silk, rayon ribbon floss and hand dyed lampshade fringing which I unpulled and dyed. 

All embroidery threads are hand dyed by me.

Fabric:

This section of my sampler is worked on 28 count linen

Dyes:

Procion cold water dyes for threads that consist of natural fibre such as the cotton, wool and silk threads and disperse dyes (also known as transfer dyes) on the synthetic threads such as lampshade fringing and knitting ribbon.

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:

This section of the sampler was worked in 2003

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

Just a quick note

For anyone interested in taking a class with me Personal Library of Stitches is due to start October 6th

For those thinking about taking this class the course is structured in such a way that each week I take an aspect of design and apply it to stitches. Students work samplers which are any size and shape of their choice.

Follow the links to read class descriptions and I have described how classes work if you have not taken an online class before.

Comments

[Alek]

So I usually don't comment, but I follow your blog via GoogleReader and I HAD to come over and comment. This is absolutely gorgeous! So. Much. Detail. It's like a stitchgasm.

[Cyndi L]

My gosh, Sharon! Your work just continues to take my breath away.

[Susan Elliott]

LOVE the thread selections, the colors, the textures...everything. My favorite band so far Sharon!