Betsy Davis sampler fill in tip.



The fill in I used two strands. The borders and strawberry band are

alternating half stitches over one. If you look close you see the stitches run

the same direction on the same rows vertical and horizontal.

Easy to keep correct by just using the vertical threads.

So one direction up and one direction across on the same row

will help you keep correct. I went up the stitch going from

bottom left to top right then came back down next row going

top left to bottom right staying on the vertical threads only. 

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the colouring is dark. The fabric is actually a light natural 25 ct linen

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I didn't like the satin stitches for leaves around the Queen flowers. Frogged out and replaced with Queen stitches like other Balch samplers I've seen.  I took out some of the old leaves I did and redid them.

 



Far left tree has V and L  symbols and hard to distinguish on the chart.

The leaves are L and branches V

Everything complete except the filling in which is taking as long as the sampler.

So here's the final deer

Last time I can redo. My threads underneath are weakening so this I'll live with.

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So I ripped out my deer. Redid it then it looked like a moose.