About 3 years ago, I created a Stitch Sampler for my Ellisimo. It has come in handy many times as a reference when trying to determine a stitch to use in a project.
I had bought a Project Runway Brother machine to use as a back up when the Ellisimo was busy embroidering. Turns out it's very light and easy to take to workshops.
Took me a while to realize it had a lot of built in stitches. Recently I made a stitch sampler of those stitches.
Last August we went on the HWY 127 Yard Sale in Ohio. I came across a
Polly Flinders box that had a pile of these white scraps leftover from a factory cut. You would not believe how many times I've grabbed some of these pieces for a project. Most recently I used them to make some
Fabric Flower Cards.
These pieces were the perfect book page size to make a small sampler. This would be much smaller pages that the Ellisimo sampler.
I stitched 2 pieces together with a double line down the left to resemble the left border on notebook paper.
Quickly I decided the stitches didn't look very nice and determined the tension was wrong. Probably got moved in packing it to bring on my Florida trip.
So I got all the stitches sewn. I decided it needed a cover. Maybe I've been in Florida too long around seafood, but I thought these pieces looked like a fish head.
I've yet to determine how to bound the "pages."
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WOW! This is awesome! I just found your web site from NTT!! Love the stitch sampler idea! So smart!! Will follow your blog for sure!
ReplyDeleteWhat a pleasing activity! I can see how your sampler will come handy as your machine seems to have many stitches. I wonder how you will bound them...
ReplyDelete(Your little pieces of fabric indeed look like fish heads. lol )