Postcard Sampler 3 Finish, 4 Finish and 5 in progress...

I'm loving these stitch samplers right now. I think the postcard size is perfect for me as it is small enough to finish quickly but big enough for me to admire 'properly' :)

Heres 3 finished but not framed...

Added since last time is Butterfly stitch in DMC 3805 and again but with the central thread I used a turquoise wool.

I then started number 4 on the same fabric as Postcard 2, I used lots of yarns from a variety bag from Textere Yarns.
The stitches in this sampler:

Chain in DMC 257

Couched turquise wool with Chain in blue sewing cotton

Couched blue ribbon with DMC 1076 leading to:

Ceylon in various yarns including texere, Madeira Metallic 365 and turquoise wool

tacked at bottom with the turquoise wool

Cross in a thick texere yarn

Detached Chain Flowers in DMC 518

Couching in texere yarns

Chain in DMC 703 and DMC

Pale blue ribbon attached with Running Stitch in DMC 703

Detached Chain and Straight in a metallic yarn from texere pack

Threaded Double Backstitch in DMC 518 and orange ribbon

Cable Chain in a texere yarn

Magic Chain in DMC 185 and DMC 518

Couched green ribbon with DMC 257 leading to:

Buttonhole Filling stitch - Open in various yarns from the texere pack

tacked at the bottom with DMC 518 which also couched a fringe texere yarn.

Since I'm enjoying the embroidery samplers so much I thought I'd try to follow Sharon B's 'Take a Stitch Tuesday' (TAST) challenge from 2008. Its obviously a year out of date, so I can't join the flickr group or work on the same stitches as other stitchers around the world, but I can enjoy the exploration none the less...!

So Week 1 (from January last year...)!

Herringbone.

So I started with Herringbone in DMC 257

Herringbone Ladder (not technically Herringbone but looks similar so I threw it in!) with DMC 75 and DMC 3805.

Herringbone - Closed in DMC 125 (variegated green)