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To make a 'page' You will need plain fabric measuring 35.5cm x 14cm (about 14in x 5.5in). Fold in half and mark your first stitch-row 4cm (about 1.5in) from the top of the fabric. Choose your stitch. For the first row use thick wool or cotton; second row three strands of stranded cotton; third row one strand. This shows you how the stitch looks from thick to thin, and how it could look in any design or pattern you wanted to make. Now you can fill up the rest of the 'page' with designs made up from your sample stitch.

To make up the 'page' Turn in the turnings, fold together, and hand or machine stitch around the three sides. Now at the top of the 'page' mark and work two buttonholes.

Button-bar Cut fabric to 14cm x 5cm (about 5.5in x 2in), fold in half, turn in the sides and stitch around them in the same style as you did the 'page'. Sew on two buttons to match your buttonholes.

You can get about three 'pages' onto one bar. Our Young Embroiderers group has made five - chain, stem/running, cross, knots and Cretan stitch.

We find The Constance Howard Book of Stitches very useful (published by B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1979).

More pictures of the Stitch Sample Books

adapted from an original article by Janet Russell © The Embroiderers' Guild 1998 - 2011. First published in the Young Textile Group Project Book.

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