This morning I received a very exciting email from Catherine Rozendaal of NZ. She’s finished her sampler from Hardanger Filling Stitches and had this to say:
“Stitched with DMC 3823 on a pale yellow Cashel linen. Love love loved stitching this, and learning lots along the way. Amazing that there are so many different filling stitches and variations of them, and just how many you got into the sampler! The finishing is a reverse hemstitch border (so invisible from the front) with mitred corners.”
On learning that hers is the first finished one that I’ve seen, other than my own, she added:
“I’m very honoured to be the apparent first to the finish line on this one. I have to say that the sampler looks really intimidating – but that look is very deceiving! My advice to stitchers is to follow the instructions in the book and stitch the foundation first, and then to work through each band in turn. By the time a stitcher gets to the bottom their confidence will be right up there.
The whole experience of stitching the sampler was wonderful – so much so that I’m actually seriously contemplating stitching it again in a different colourway so that I can perfect my picots (the only element that I still haven’t mastered properly!).”
Catherine, thanks so much for sharing your finish with me! It is magnificent, and it is so exciting for me to see it finished.
How are you going with yours, if you’re stitching it? I’d love to see progress photos or photos of finished samplers! And if you haven’t started one and would like to, I can set you up with all the supplies and instructions you’ll need to make it.
https://www.vettycreations.com.au/hardanger-filling-stitches.html#supplies
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
So satisfying to see what someone else has done with your design, isn’t it!
It certainly is, Rachel!