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Sashiko Sampler ©2014 Blue Dogwood Designs www.BlueDogwoodDesigns.com November 2014 This project will unfold over the next 12 months. The shell design is inspired by a traditional Sashiko pattern. The shells will be filled with designs inspired by blackwork, open work and lacey backgrounds. A sampler to try different patterns in tiny bits. You can use your own canvas and stitch the outline from January 2014 Stitchguide. Here is the order of the shells. Sashiko Sampler an original Needlepoint project from Blue Dogwood Designs November - Monogram corners and border. You can start this project with this instruction and monthly stitchguide free to download. If you would like the canvas marked and ready to go, order here: https://bluedogwooddesigns.com/featured_item/sashiko/ I am using Zweigart Vintage Blue 18 count canvas, which has a washed overdye look. Some of the canvas will show as the design continues. Finished size is 8.25 in x 7.5 in on 18 count. Fibers are from Valdani - they have 6 ply silk and 3 ply cotton, sold in small balls. Check your local needlepoint store. Have fun with this stitchguide or modify on your own. Step by step Threads needed: Shell 24 M42 3 ply cotton Shell 25 M42 3 ply cotton Border 5 ply of O526 silk - green colorway for top half 5 ply of V16 silk - purple colorway for bottom half

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Page 1: Sashiko Sampler - Blue Dogwood Designsover one thread. Sashiko Sampler ©2014 Blue Dogwood Designs that are offset. Work Shell #25 THE DATE IS 6 THREADS HIGH Monogram was 5 high. O562

Sashiko Sampler ©2014 Blue Dogwood Designs www.BlueDogwoodDesigns.com

November 2014

This project will unfold over the next 12 months. The shell design is inspired by a traditional Sashiko pattern. The shells will be filled with designs inspired by blackwork, open work and lacey backgrounds. A sampler to try different patterns in tiny bits. You can use your own canvas and stitch the outline from January 2014 Stitchguide. Here is the order of the shells.

Sashiko Sampler

an original Needlepoint project from Blue Dogwood Designs

November - Monogram corners and border.

You can start this project with this instruction and monthly

stitchguide free to download.

If you would like the canvas marked and ready to go, order here:

https://bluedogwooddesigns.com/featured_item/sashiko/

I am using Zweigart Vintage Blue 18 count canvas, which

has a washed overdye look. Some of the canvas will show as the design continues.

Finished size is 8.25 in x 7.5 in on 18 count.

Fibers are from Valdani - they have 6 ply silk and 3 ply

cotton, sold in small balls. Check your local needlepoint store.

Have fun with this stitchguide or modify on your own.

Step by step Threads needed: Shell 24 M42 3 ply cotton Shell 25 M42 3 ply cotton Border 5 ply of O526 silk - green colorway for top half 5 ply of V16 silk - purple colorway for bottom half

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Sashiko Sampler ©2014 Blue Dogwood Designs www.BlueDogwoodDesigns.com

Shell #24

Alphabet is 5 high. Most are 4 wide but a couple are 5 wide

Print out this page and use the blank box to sketch out your

letters in pencil. Top of first letter is 2 threads below shell

outline.

Stitch the monogram first. O526 6 ply silk - use 2 ply

Note - the date below is 6 threads high.

Print this page out and practice your letters here with pencil.

Step 1: Red stitches are a

simple cross. Use 2 ply of the

M42 cotton.

This makes a simple cross stitch

over one thread.

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Shell #25

THE DATE IS 6 THREADS HIGH Monogram was 5 high.

Step 2: use 3 ply of

O562

Tent stitches every other

that are offset. Work

this vertically from the

top down in a vertical

column - start on the

long outside edge.

Compensate around your

simple cross initials.

The green is 3 ply of O562 cotton.

Red stitches are 2 ply of

M42 cotton for this simple

cross over 1 thread. You can

see the stitched sample that

there is a light section of the

thread on ours. If you like,

you can cut a section of

your thread that is more

evenly colored.

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Border Best, My best friends are stitchers, Kay @ Blue Dogwood Designs Questions? Email me at [email protected]

See the diagram of the corner and the direction of the stitches. There is a cross stitch in the corner.

Look closely - there is one thread that separates shell border and this outside outline. It will be most important at top right corner where the pattern goes to the edge. See on the bottom, it does not bump right up to the bottom of the shell arcs. Start with 5 ply V16 at the Start Here spot. Think of that start spot as "9 o'clock" and work down, across and up to the "3 o'clock" - stitch the purple line border. Then take 5 ply of O526 silk at "9 o'clock" and work up, across and down to the "3 o'clock" top portion

to stitch the green line border.

See the diagram of the corner and the direction of the stitches.

***Remember to watch that border spacing leaving 1 thread...