To Have and To Hold Wedding Sampler

[Cecilia]

It's so beautiful and so is your stitiching.

[Lizzy]

Its lovely and so delicate looking

[Lili]

wow! lovely design, and beautiful work.

[dollystitcher]

This is stunning and you are stitching it so quickly

[minij]

This is really beautiful, I love the Sweetheart Tree designs but have never stitched any

[Lessa54]

This is looking so beautiful

[koko]

Well, I have finished all the stitching! Tonight I am going to iron and then start adding the beads and embellishments! Yay bling!! Since my last update, I have added diamond-eye stitches, the bargello or flame stitches, and the 4-trip half diamond eye stitch, in addition to more cross-stitch, back-stitch, oblique herringbone, scotch stitch and couching over cable.

Here's how the whole thing looks:


And here's a shot of just the bottom (the part I just finished):

[silviaciuchi]

It's really impressive, I hope you'll have fun adding the beads!

[karen4bells]

This is so breathtakingly beautiful!! What a lovely piece of artistry!! Love the fabric and the stitching!!

[stitchingmae]

LOVE it!!!!
I have enjoy the old look of it!!

[koko]

Thanks everyone I really love the way this is turning out! I'm supposed to be rotating back to my castle project but I'm having so much fun with this one I can't stop stitching it!!!!

[Rose]

oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that is sooooooo pretty!!!!!

[Lisa]

soo pretty

[pamelam]

Lovely, with all the different stitches on it!

[Slinky]

Oh this is so beautiful, and looks stunning on the fabric!

[Mabel Figworthy]

What a beautiful project, and so wonderfully executed -- it's going to look incredible with the embellishments added!

Can I ask, what is "4-trip half diamond eye stitch"?

[koko]

Can I ask, what is "4-trip half diamond eye stitch"?

This is what it looks like:


It's the top-half of a Diamond Eye stitch, and I think it's called a 4-trip because it's using 4 shades of thread, so you thread the needle 4 times.

[katiebeth]

I love it!

[Cockneystitcher]

....Did you know how to do the fancy stitches before hand ,or was it something you learnt along the way?.

[koko]

....Did you know how to do the fancy stitches before hand ,or was it something you learnt along the way?.

No, I've never done these before, I have just been learning as I go along. I definitely would recommend the Sweetheart Tree charts if you want to learn new stitches, they are very thorough in their explanations and they have very clear diagrams of the stitches. I was pretty intimidated by this project at first because of all the different kinds of stitches, but I have to say it has not been difficult at all, it's just following the chart & instructions.