And it’s a late finish for the first sampler of the year.
This was a nice way to show off stitches.
The stitches are:
Pink: sheaf; Orange: mountmellick, and a blanket stitch to even things out; Yellow: love chain; Green: feather; Blue: herringbone. The clouds are basket weave (the tiny cloud) and cross bar filling trellis (the other two). All of the outlining is couching.
I really loved that basket weave cloud. I was less enamored of the crossbar filling trellis, and you can see that eventually I did not care about my lines being straight.
I also experimented with a shimmery white thread to outline the colors of the rainbow and on the clouds. It will be the first and last time I use such a thing. I didn’t like the synthetic feeling of the thread and it was a massive pain to work with. I used normal DMC floss to pin it in place.
Here’s the back. You can see the wiry bits of the shimmery thread and where they got tangled.
I think I did a great job with colors on this one! This is also the last of Matt’s old sheets to be used for embroidery.