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just found this thread, (strange things happen at 2 in the morning when you cant sleep!!) and designed this using my favourite blackwork stitches, hope i'm not too late to take part

I have done two more bands: the first is a bit modified versions of pixxie's band, the second is an element from Zeb's band (since it was too big) repeated.




I am planning to continue with some of Smiley's, and I have drawn some bands again, will be using these, too:

A few more little patterns - I was just drawing iddly, really - but some of them are not bad, I think.



And one I made for my bottom:



And Ta-daaaa I have finished!!!!



Stil have to do something with the hems, though.

Some close ups of the top and bottom:





Hope to see others work on this. It was great fun. Thanks everyone for the patterns.

I too have been wondering about using a 4 sided stitch to hem aida. Thank you.

Here's mine so far. I must also get around to putting up graphs of what I have used. Working on it

... and here they are

Thank you
These will be my final three main bands:

Spurred on by Agi finishing hers, I have now finished mine.
Not finally decided what to do with it. Thought about a needleroll but I haven't left enough fabric at the top. So I think I might get some wooden bellpull ends and hang it up.

ok i finally designed one that i liked and have a lovely gold bell pull to mount it in when i have finished it, i've only stitched the header so far but this is the pic of it

ok bands 1 & 2 up now

not a great pic but here are bands 3 & 4

Ta DA!

So a few weeks ago I was bored at work so started mucking around with a design for my band sampler. Since then it has had many alterations (bands added, bands started then discarded...) but over Easter I finished it!

Stitched on 28ct sparkly evenweave over 2 using Gumnut Yarns, Madeira and Cifonda Silks (Mabel will be proud!) and a 4mm silk ribbon for the roses (colours chosen as I went along ):

In whole:


Top and bottom halves:


Sections of my favourite bands - I really love how these sections turned out (theres a second sampler now designed using these again... )


(Note: Some of the bands have been inspired by designs of Blackwork Journey and Seba Designs)

ok here are bands 5 & 6, band 6 is the centre band, so i'm half way.

making good progress now here are bands 7 & 8

ok so here are bands 9 10 and 11 thats all the bands done just the footer left to stitch

here's the finished thing




and for thoses who are interested here is a list of where i got my designs from:

HEADER - the small flowers and vines are from the DMC pearlescent effects I bought a few years ago reference number - DMC-f75597. the larger flowers are from the world of cross stitching issue 167 page 70.

band 1 - the world of cross stitching issue 163 page 75.

band 2 - heart my design, double straight cross over 4 & star stitch over 2 are specailty
stitches from pcstitch pro 9, the flowers are adapted from the secret garden biscornu
the world of cross stitching issue 142 page 60.

band 3 - rhodes heart from pcstitch pro 9, remainder my design.

band 4 - flowers from the world of cross stitching issue 163 page 75 and the vines adapted from DMC pearlescent effects reference number - DMC-f75597.

band 5 - from cross stitcher may 2010 page 38.

band 6 - my design.

band 7 - heart my design, flowers from DMC pearlescent effects reference number DMC-f75597 triple cross over 6 from pcstitch pro 9.

band 8 - from cross stitcher may 2010 page 38.

band 9 - the world of cross stitching issue 163 page 75.

band 10 - the world of cross stitching issue 163 page 63.

band 11 - leaves from DMC pearlescent effects reference number - DMC-f75597, holly leaves from candle and holly motif pcstitch pro 9.

FOOTER - butterfly from the world of cross stitching issue 167 page 30, spirals adapted from same design

Hi, just posted some pictures of my band sampler I've been sitching on.

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all patterns r sounds good...

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