Wednesday, July 20, 2016

A New Technique

So, the sampler for Merry Cox's Stitch, Mend and Mark design is finished with a rolled hem. I have never done a rolled hem before. Easy to execute on 28 count, loosely woven linen. Not as easy to execute on 36 count linen. I did my best. The front side looks fine; back side could be better, but it's done.







I'm going to have to practice this one some more. Or next time I will do the nun stitch!

5 comments:

gracie said...

Looks good to me. I have not done the roll stitch on needlework. Is it like doing it on cotton, like on a hankie?

Stasi said...

Haven't tried that before on linen...seems like it would be difficult!

deb said...

It looks good - front AND back.

I've always wanted to do a mitered hem finish - the overly-ambitious part of me wants to mount a mitered hemmed sampler on another piece of slightly different colored linen before framing. Yeah, sure - that'll happen.

marly said...

I'm surprised! I thought it would be difficult with any linen and even worse with a lower count. But since I've never tried it, I am wrong again!

Khristine Doiron said...

It is lovely!