Blackwork sampler

Had wanted to post yesterday, but my neighbor Bev from across the street wanted to use my long arm machine to quilt a sampler quilt of hers. She had been asking for a long time, and I always had a quilt on the machine. Finally finished one and called her to come over. She wanted to use a pantograph which is a quilting design printed on a long sheet of paper. You follow the pattern from side to side with a tiny laser light hooked to the machine. We worked on pinning her backing fabric to the…

One of my favourite finishes of all time has to be this Blackwork Sampler. I wanted to learn how to do blackwork and so did 2 of my friends, and this was the perfect project for it, lots of differe…

Jane Bostocke's 1598 Sampler can be seen at the V&A Museum here. Jane Bostocke's Sampler at the V&A Museum. Embroidered linen with coloured silk and metal threads, seed pearls and beads. The blackwork embroidery patterns below are from Bostocke's sampler and can be found here (Claudette Ziemann's page).

For when I need something to sit and do that doesn'r require much previous planning....

Sixteen unique blackwork motifs make up this striking sampler, worked in shades of green. Motifs are back-stitched; each square and the full sampler are outlined in stem-stitch. Pattern includes the full chart, as well as four full-page enlargements. Chart size: 110 x 110 stitches Stitched area: 102 x 102 stitches Colours used: 3 (but easy to substitute as many or as few as you want) Shown on: 14-count Aida cloth Stitched size on 14-count: 18.4cm x 18.4cm (7.25" x 7.25")

My attempt at stitching the first page of fill-in patterns from Lesley Wilkins' Beginner's Guide to Blackwork. Blogged at: backstitch.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/blackwork-fill-in-sam...

If you’re determined to whip up some Christmas stitchery this year, you might find some of the following free embroidery patterns useful. Though I do try to keep everything on Needle ‘n Thread easily indexed in one way or another, it’s easy to miss some of the content from previous years, so here’s a quick ...

Section of blackwork sampler by Barbara McNally Geddes

I've finally finished the present for my mother. It's taken forever and that whole journey has been blogged about here.