[HNW] Re: Dream Projects

[Catherine Kinsey]

Mine would be a "World Sampler".  It would consist of every stitch of
every 
embroidery technique from every country and ethnicity in the world.
We think alike!  This has been a dream of mine for years also. <snip>

I have some linen banding that I want to start my stitch sampler on,
but 
can't decide whether to stitch it in different colors and threads, or
do it all 
with one color. . .lol.  I love the idea that stitchers used to keep
one rolled 
up and carried in their needlework baskets to stitch new or discovered

stitches and motifs on.  
                                                                       
      
              hugs, Susie
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I've got one of those going, I get inspired every now and then to dive
into it and then it sits for awhile.  I used plain linen and finished
the edges with different button hole stitches.  I used a variety of
colors to use up odd leftover lengths of floss, and just for the heck of
it :).  I also included the name of the stitch and I had never heard of
some of them before I started.  I usually pick a handy embroidery book
and work my way through the listed stitches.  It is been hand to have
when I am trying to put a design together and want to use a variety of
stitches but have trouble visualizing from the illustrations.

Dream project: a sampler with a sample of embroidery from different
periods of european embroidery.  Start with something Viking, have a bit
of the Bayuex tapestry, some opus anglicanum, etc.  My big problem has
been deciding on the final designs!

Catherine