Day 60: Diagonal Hungarian Bargello Filler Stitch Design

New book…new Bargello designs! This pattern is a variation of the Hungarian Bargello Filler Stitch.

It is stitched in blocks of three with one stitch over 4 canvas threads, followed by one over 8, and then another over 4 threads.

After stitching several advanced Bargello designs, this simple pattern, found on p. 19 in Traditional Bargello by Dorothy Phelan, is a welcome respite.

The diagonal stitch pattern slants to the left and then to the right as they are worked down the canvas.

I used an assortment of silk threads to work the design including Needlepoint Silk in several shades of rust to light orange, and a variegated Silk N’Colors thread from The Thread Gatherer.

Interesting Tidbit about Dorothy Phelan

Dorothy Bromiley Phelan started a specialist needlework shop with Elizabeth Bradley in early 1982 called The Sherbourne Tapestry Centre and ran the shop until around 1996.

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