 Have you seen Sharon’s post about A tale of two samplers?
It was interesting to see our samplers side by side, mine was inspired by Sharon’s and they have things in common such as both are long band samplers, both are recording stitches (many of the same variations, both are recording personal/cultural/ historical events, some threads can be found on both samplers and both samplers have 58 cm (22 3/4 inches) of Herringbone Stitch variations.
 Both our samplers having the same length of Herringbone stitch variations was, as Sharon said spooky, particularly so because within that length our composition of the stitches is very different, Sharon has 39 variations and I have 34 and when you see them side by side our colour choices are quite different too.
To me seeing the 2 samplers side by side it is the differences that stand out far more than the similarities and I love how each of our samplers has its own unique personality.
A couple of readers have let me know that they are stitching along on there own sampler and I wonder if there are many others that are stitching along too, I would love to see images of other stitch band samplers.
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May 17th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Wow, I really like these and the idea of them. This is a great way to create a journal of stitches to refer back to. I’m curios as to what fabric you are using as a base?
Perhaps I’ll start my own.
Cheers, Helen