Top row is a Basic Herringbone stitch done with 6 strands of cotton thread…Leaves are Straight stitches with 4 strands of cotton…plastic flowers stitched on with a bead complete the row.
bottom row is Linen hem stitching done with size 8 crochet thread…I am leaving the back of my sampler showing so that the back of the stitches can be seen but I don’t want seams showing on the back so I have hemmed the ends of the panel and will ladder or faggot stitch the panels together…
The first completed panel of my Band Sampler is 30 inches long and has 41 stitch variations.
 For the hem at the top of the panel I stitched over 3 threads which has given a bigger hole which I prefer.
The only other time that I have hemmed Linen was 35 years ago when I hemmed a 50 inch square of Irish Linen for the Tablecloth that I embroidered with Spanish Blackwork for my School Certificate, which was enough hemming to imprint the how to on my brain forever because I had no trouble remembering how to do it…below is the tablecloth (which took me 12 months to embroider) and a detail of the embroidery.
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February 10th, 2008 at 4:23 am
The sampler is lovely. What a treasure of memories and stitches!
February 10th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Annie, the Spanish blackwork is beautiful. Thank you so much for putting up this piece with the detail. It is lovely–graceful and then so precise when you see the details.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:26 am
I want to congratulate and thank you for creating this web site. I just found it today thanks to a url from one of the yahoo groups that I belong to. I’ve never seen a more wonnderful site. All the different crafts you do are just out of this world. I’m adding it to my favorites list and will be checking back often to see what more wonderful things you have added. Again, thank you. Dewey in South Carolina, USA
February 11th, 2008 at 4:01 am
I love your blackwork, Annie. Soooo striking! Your sampler is rather nice, too! ;0) You have been moving so fast on it!
February 11th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Annie,
Wow! That sampler looks impressive. I will have to go back and refresh my memory with all the different sections. But what caught my eye initially is your wonderful blackwork – thankyou for sharing that. Linen hemstitching is lovely – we often did it on the loom to start and finish a piece when it becomes quite quick with everything held nice and taut!
February 11th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Wow!The Spanish Work takes my breath away. The Herring bone fan and the Circle with the button hole middle is equally intriguing.I am going to try them.Your idea of exploring the possibilities of a stitch in one sampler is good .I wanted to ask how long it should be when you had answered it in this blog.Did you know i was going to ask? thanks for the response and reading my blog.It really gave me nice feeling that I’m being read.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Oh, now I see! Wow, this is going to be some piece! Your tablecloth is beautiful. I can’t imagine how you finished it in a year.