backstitch band and motif experiments

retro 30's prints used for each block I make for bees... My first sampler quilt....

Start of sampler for Week 1 of lesson with Sharon b

chloesplace.blogspot.com/2006/11/sampler-1.html

For Kitchen Cow.

88"H X 60"W, cotton, 2013. Photo by Miles Mattison.

I decided to re-make this one, as I just didn't really like the previous version.

I decided to take a samples... and photos while I was brewing the other day :)

From 1925 one old sampler from my family.

A set of seven beads, - five round beads,13mm to 14mm approximately,and two rondelles. All with silvered glass pattern.

Worked in DMC Color Variations Specialty Threads

Get the pattern here www.dmc-usa.com/mjRS/1/doc/US_freedesigns/Color_Variation...

the blocks for my sampler quilt laid out in their final possition (perhaps)

Lavendar Wings State Sampler stitched as a model for 3 Stitches on 32 ct natural raw linen.

30's Sampler Quilt

blogged about here:

materialgirlquilts.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/w-i-p-wednesd...

Team Sampler is contributing to the August Sampler!

With one hard cider thrown in.

Sampler of Moses and Sadie Zook genealogy

The most current block - took just a couple of minutes to get caught up this morning.

At Crux Fermentation Project in Bend.

the Summer Sampler by Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery

first 4 squares..

loved this flag blocks -- I put a star in each corner

Sampler of half a dozen beers at the BarbaRoja Brewery in Escobar, Argentina

I misplaced two of my blocks for this sampler, and needed to re-make them.

Designed by Hillside Samplings. Stitched on R&R 30-Count Light Espresso with all the recommended floss. Close up of left side.

Designed by Needle's Prayse. Completed in 2002.

Last night my brother in The Netherlands sent me this picture of a sampler I embroidered in the late seventies and early eighties. When I moved to Taiwan I didn't take it with me. I was afraid the climate here, which is very humid, would ruin the very fine muslin and yarn.

Top right of quilt

buttons magee

This is the pinwheel parade block taken from the Skills Builder Sampler quilt a long, the tutorial can be found here; www.vanessachristenson.com/2011/03/bloggers-block-palooza...

Detail of Jane Bostocke sampler, 1598. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England.

mi hermana

By The Goode Huswife. Stitched on 40-Count PTP Legacy Linen with HDF & NPI silks.

6" block

Fabrics for my Test Your Skills Sampler.

I became obsessed with finding the right prints for this project, while still retaining the original background fabric (light blue) and the original binding fabric (multi-colored stripe).

Blogged here.

Sampler

Paper Smooches May 27- June 2 Picture Perfect challenge

Clockwise from top left: mole poblano, cochinita pibil, steak picado, chicharron, tinga, bisek en salsa roja