"I Love You" Sampler #209, The Victoria Sampler

Learn how to finish your work as a quilted wallhanging instead of framing it and see how easy it is to work it out with your own fabrics and laces! To show you how, Thea has created this unique sampler which celebrates the love we have for the dear people in our lives. The bands of the alphabet are separated by bands of drawn thread, each one of increasing size and beauty! This project will delight you with various stitches, and the colours of the silks and fabric compliment the sentiment. Thea has used some beautiful overdyes in soft peach, rose, yellow and soft teal and olive greens, including some tiny cream buttons, and beautiful large peach pearls for their lustre. At the back of this leaflet, you’ll find a thorough step-by-step finishing guide with colour photographs to help you finish this sampler and any others, with fabric and a sewing machine, just like Lisa did. Once you’ve learned this lovely technique, you will be able to finish any of your flat projects this way!

• Design area: 138h x 64w (9.9” high x 4.6” wide)
• Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Raw Linen 
• Cut fabric: 16” high x 11” wide for finishing or framing

Suggested Materials

• Access Trebizond (silk - thick twist) #341 - peach
• Gloriana silk #135 Bellagio
• Gloriana 4mm silk ribbon #038 Rosa Linda
• Dinky Dyes #135 Dandenong, #013 Jaffa and #092 Eungella
• Needlepoint Inc. #0635 - salmon dk and #0324 - teal vy dk
• Kreinik Mori #7124 - cream
• SJ Designs 3mm pearl beads - peach
• Mill Hill seed bead #00123 - cream
• Micro Mini Round Buttons - cream
• Zweigart 28ct Cashel Linen - Raw Linen
• DMC #8 Perle Cotton #712 - cream
• DMC #12 Perle Cotton #712 - cream
• #24 tapestry needle
• #10 short beading needle