I thought I would share a wedding sampler that I stitched recently. The wedding took place in Greece and I was asked to use a sea theme for the embroidery design.
The font I used was the same as on the invitation , this was traced through on to the white silk with a fine 0.5 blue pencil. At the bottom of the wording I stitched the wedding bouquet; rosemary, olive branches and white roses.
To keep with the sea theme I added a shell and seahorse. These were kept very simple in style to fit in with the lightness of the overall sampler. The words on the sampler are personal to the family so I am only showing the embroidery in parts.
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| The font was embroidered in a space dyed stranded cotton using stem stitch . This blended from turquoise through to sea blue and a bottle green. Stem stitch is perfect for embroidering writing as you can get lovely curves. |
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| The bouquet was embroidered in stranded cottons and white and green silk ribbon. |
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| The shell was embroidered in stem stitch using DMC colour variations stranded cotton. |
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| The seahorse was stitched in stem and coral (how appropriate!) stitches and french knots again using DMC colour variations thread. A couple of sequins and an antique glass bead finished it off. |
What we can see looks lovely, can we see a picture of the whole sampler please.
ReplyDeleteThanks Elaina, as the wording on the sampler is personal to the family I choose to keep the whole sampler picture private.
DeleteWhat a sweet rendering of the bouquet!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jocelyn, I've not heard what the bride thinks of it yet!!!
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