I have not made much progress on my UFOS to write. to see others progress visit Pintangle.
We were on vacation to Chennai, India for two weeks. We visited Bangalore and some temples around our village with our family. Our family Deity [ AngallaParameswari], Avanivanallur, Alankudi [ Guru], SriVancheeyam [ Yamadharma], Ramaswamy[ Kumbakonam], Pattiswaram[ Durga], Suryanar Koil[ Sun], Vaitheeswaran Koil- were the temples . All the temples are centuries old, makes us feel and both proud to be a part of these and humble that how insignificant we are. This trip was more of a pilgrimage to offer thanks to God for looking after us during my hubby’s emergency surgeries. We also had Navarathri Festival during which we refrain from stitching. So lots of excuses for stitchfree vacation.
SharonB had asked about the length of my TAST samplers. The sampler are of 4 inches width. They are still individual pieces, which I am hoping to assemble together one day.
TAST sampler details– I started stitching TAST sampler in 2009, when the TAST challenge was restarted on stitchinfingers. I worked 16 of the challenge stitches. The total length of these 2009 year sampler is 14. 4 feet.
In 2010, I joined the TAST challenge on Pintangle and worked 28 of the challenge stitches. the length of 2010 sampler is 23. 5 feet.
In 2012, joined the TAST challenge on Pintangle and completed all the stitches. The length of 2012 sampler is over 40 feet.
In 2013 , joined the TAST challenge on Pintangle and completed all the stitches. The length of 2013 samplers is 32. 5 feet.
This year too, I started working the stitches as band samplers which is 15 feet in length. And after 22 weeks moved on to working the challenge stitches on some designs, these design samplers are of varying length and width. I have got the sampler fever again and plan to work the stitches which need catching up as samplers. The total length of all these samplers cross 125 feet at present.
Thank you, Sharon.
After returning to Muscat, deciding to catch up on Randje per week challenge and started these six edges,
The outlining in chain stitch[green] for mirrors to be attached later was worked on the cream tunic before I left for India.
October 15, 2014 at 6:33 am
Wow Chitra – are you going to stitch them all together? Love to see photos of them laid out! Fantastic achievment!
October 15, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Thank you, Sharon. I haven’t decided yet, my husband says 10 feet would be ideal. I’ll lay them out and take pictures to post them.
Chitra
October 15, 2014 at 10:24 am
Bravo!
Your samplers with all its variation have always impressed me, but I had no idea how extensive your collection of samplers was. Like Sharon you are also very good at documentation with pictures and numbers. Keep up the good work!
October 15, 2014 at 4:21 pm
Thank you, Queenie. I did not realize either, till Sharon asked specifically for the length. never thought inches of stitch samples would grow so long!
October 15, 2014 at 3:37 pm
Wow, that’s going to be a long sampler! (I had to convert it to cm to understand the size!!) I’m still catching up on Randje per week too, the first row on your photo is the next one I’m going to stitch.
October 15, 2014 at 4:23 pm
Thank you, I felt lazy to convert it to cm. randje per week was first the stitching I started after returning to Muscat.
October 15, 2014 at 6:42 pm
Your stitching is lovely! Your samplers sound amazing. I look forward to seeing the photos you share and how you plan to display them.
October 16, 2014 at 4:55 am
Thank you, Renee. I ‘ll try to take picture first, then work on the idea of assembling them.
October 15, 2014 at 9:05 pm
Hi
Nice design can you please post the full pattern so we can trace and try
October 16, 2014 at 4:53 am
I am currently working on this pattern. this post is about the works in progress. I ‘ll post the pattern when the tunic is completed and as a part of the tunic itself.
Thank you, Chitra