Description
This is the full digital release of my 2020 SAL (Stitch-A-Long), with all 12 parts condensed in one booklet! Depending in your location you can download the ‘paper’ format (North & South America mainly) or A4 (rest of the world).
Like previous years, has been a hashtag for this one which can still be used: #MFESAL2020 – so make sure to share your stitching with this hashtag, and follow the hashtag to check on other stitchers’ progress!
This design features mainly full crosses, and has a few backstitches (all of them in the houses). There are no other specialty stitches – although you can embellish the design to your liking!
For this design I took inspiration from the idea of Scottish family samplers, where stitchers would embroider the initials of their family and loved ones, and creating unique heirlooms. I transformed this idea into the idea of a patchwork quilt, where lots of small pieces of fabric make up a larger design.
In the pattern, small shapes are placed around a large central design featuring a tree of life. It features influences from all the things that I love in crafts: there’s Scandinavian influences, Quaker medallions, Marken style borders (from the Netherlands) – and like a family of individuals, they all come together and form a whole.
MATERIALS NEEDED
You can stitch this sampler on any evenweave material – whether that is linen or Aida, the choice is yours! Stitched on 32 count linen (or 16 count Aida) it would measure approximately 24″ wide and 15.5″ high (61 x 39.5cm). Note that it might just fit on a standard 70x50cm piece of linen, but might not leave too much space to the sides.
This design has approximately 30600 crosses – approximately, as it depends on the names and initials that you stitch yourself. This would require about 15 skeins of DMC if you stitch your sampler with 2 pulled strands over 2 on 32 count linen.
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