I have finished the first of my samplers, this is the flat stitches.
From top to bottom
I have started the next sampler
This one is the looped stitches, I’m currently working on chain stitch.
Filed under Embroidery
Finished Sampler – Not the best picture!
I finished this last week at my embroidery class – it was such a mammoth effort, blood, sweat and tears (literally in the case of the blood!).
I am so pleased that I finished it, but not all that taken with the final result. Having said that, this was always going to be about the journey. Slowing down and finding the quiet rhythm of needle through fabric. I will frame it and hang it on the wall as a reminder of slow pleasures and that a lot can be achieved by doing a little every week.
Filed under Canvas Work
Canvas Work Sampler
I have finished the rectangle of the sampler – it still needs a border, but I am thrilled to have finished the inside!
This was worked on 14 count canvas – which meant 9 strands of embroidery thread (I used DMC floss)! I’m definitely moving onto a smaller count next time.
Each ’tile’ is a different type of stitch. In some cases the compensation at the edges drove me mad!
Filed under Canvas Work
I’ve dug out a birth sampler I started 7 years ago and not finished. I’m about halfway through and I find the very slowness of it quite relaxing and meditative.
Filed under Cross Stitch
