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Our Class features Terri's design, "Allium," which she has custom designed for our website . Terri urges visitors to try their hand, as she is confident that they will enjoy stitching it as much as she enjoyed creating it for them.

Materials List
1 skein of Caron Collection Water lilies: #007 Pistachio Nut
1 skein of Caron Collection Soie Crystale: #0057
1 skein of Caron Collection Candlelight: Solid Gold: #D1
1 package of Mill Hill Glass Seed Beads #00557 Gold
1 6 x 8 piece of 28 count white evenweave fabric
1 #24 embroidery needle
1 beading needle

Click on the chart for a full size chart to print out.

Notes
1. Please note that parallel lines depicted on stitch diagrams, represent fabric threads. For all stitch diagrams, come up on the odd numbered holes and down on the even numbered holes. For Algerian Eyelet only, all even numbers are for the center hole.
2. You may wish to practice special stitches on a scrap piece of fabric before stitching them on the project.
3. Find center of fabric and count up 60 fabric threads, then count 40 fabric threads to the left to find the beginning point for Band 1.
4. To prevent a vertical stripping of color from colored band to colored band, alter portion of cut thread you begin to stitch with from band to band. If you begin the first band with one end of cut thread, begin the next colored band with opposite end of cut thread.
5. Model stitched on 28 cont white Monaco by Charles Craft.

Instructions

Band 1: Cross Stitch
Using 2 plies of Water lilies #007 Pistachio Nut: stitch cross stitches over two threads. Complete each cross stitch before moving on to the next one. Complete all six stitches in each triangle before moving to the next triangle.

Band 2: Oblong Double Cross Stitch
This band begins 1 fabric thread in from the left hand edge of the design area. Please refer to Stitch Diagram A. Using two plies of Soie Crystale #0057, begin stitching oblong double cross stitches in lower left hand corner of this band.

Band 3: Cross Stitch
Using 2 plies of Water lilies # 007 Pistachio Nut, stitch cross stitches over 2 fabric threads. Remember to finish each cross stitch before moving to the next one.

Band 4: Algerian Eyelet and Backstitch
Like Band 2, this band is displaced one fabric thread from the edge of the design area. Using 2 plies of Water lilies #007 Pistachio Nut, begin stitching Algerian Eyelet in lower left hand corner of flower. Start first Algerian Eyelet 3 fabric threads from left hand edge of design area. Please refer to Stitch Diagram B for Algerian Eyelet. When bringing the thread down through the center hole of eyelet, give the thread a gentle tug to open the center slightly. Stitch eyelets in a clockwise manner, except for center flower. For the center flower, stitch eyelets in a counterclockwise manner. When all eyelets are completed, stitch backstitches over two fabric threads using Candlelight #D1 Solid Gold.

Band 5: Cross Stitch
Repeat band 3.

Band 6: Cross Stitch
Using 2 plies of Soie Crystale #0057, stitch cross stitches over 2 fabric threads.

Band 7: Half Rhodes Stitches and Beading
Using 2 plies of Water lilies #007 Pistachio Nut, begin stitching Half Rhodes Stitches. Please refer to Stitch Diagram C for this stitch. When all Half Rhodes stitches are completed, attach Mill Hill Seed Beads ##00557 Gold using 2 plies of Soie Crystale #0057. Please refer to Diagram D for bead attachment.

Band 8: Cross Stitch
Repeat band 6.

Band 9: Cross Stitch
Using 2 plies of Water lilies #007 Pistachio Nut, stitch cross stitches over 2 fabric threads. Stitch each diagonal column before moving to the next one.

Band 10: Beading
Using 2 plies of Soie Crystale, attach Mill Hill Seed Beads #00557 Gold. Please refer to Stitch Diagram D for attachment.

Band 11: Double Cross Stitches
Using 2 plies of Soie Crystale #0057, begin stitching Double Cross Stitches. Please refer to Stitch Diagram E for Double Cross Stitch.

Band 12: Algerian Eyelet and Backstitch
Using 2 plies of Water lilies #007 Pistachio Nut, begin first Algerian Eyelet. Please refer to Stitch Diagram B for Algerian Eyelets. Remember to gently tug in the center of the stitch to open the hole in the center slightly. After all Algerian eyelets are completed, backstitch over 2 fabric threads using Candlelight #D1 Solid Gold.

Band 13: Cross Stitch and Beading
Using 2 plies of Soie Crystale #0057, stitch Cross Stitches over 2 fabric threads. When all Cross Stitches are completed, attach Mill Hill Seed Beads #00557 Gold using 2 plies of Soie Crystale #0057. Please refer to Stitch Diagram D for attachment.

About Terri Hazlett

As a child, Terri's mother referred to her as "Little Bertha" after her grandmother who quilted, crocheted and engaged in several other handicrafts, indicating Terri's fondness for creating things from a young age herself. Terri Hazlett's original band sampler designs came into being because most band samplers are not created with considerations to matting and framing in mind. If you enjoy needlework, as Terri does, and are prolific, as Terri is, it can get very expensive to display work requiring custom framing. Terri began by altering existing designs to fit standard size mats and frames. This quite naturally evolved to designing original patterns.

Aside from being a devoted needleworker, Terri has a passion for gardening. Her designs have primarily featured flowers: "Allium." her rendition of the bloom of a garlic plant, "Daddy's Tulip Garden," an homage to her father's flower bed and "Blooms on the Vine," inspired by random eyelet stitches on a tee shirt. Flowers are not her only inspiration however. Hearts are another favored motif as in her design "Kind of Heart;" she has charted and stitched a designs based on a blueprint of the front elevation of the family vacation home and another based on a blueprint of a railroad car. Inspiration also is derived from her interest in collecting mineral specimens. Some of her embroideries feature stitches which form patterns similar to those seen in the radiating crystals found in some mineral specimens.

Daddy's Tulip Garden	Blooms on the Vine

Terri describes as whimsical the style she aspires to by employing special counted thread stitches to represent her flowers. She alternates bands of color, mostly pastels, with rows of white or ecru stitches so that color does not overpower the other design elements consisting mainly of cross stitch, counted thread stitches and drawn thread techniques executed on even weave fabrics. She has also integrated silk ribbon embroidery on occasion. Since discovering Caron Waterlilies threads 2 years ago, she hasn't been inclined to use anything else in her own work.

Currently Terri's designs are available at The Stitcher's Cottage in Hot Springs, Arkansas and at A Stitch in Time in Spring, Texas. If you are interested in ordering these or would like your local shop to carry them, Terri can be contacted by e mail at willowbrook503@yahoo.com or write to her: Terri Hazlett, 503 Willowbrook Drive, Hot Springs, Arkansas 71913

COPYRIGHT NOTICE: None of these designs or instructions can be reproduced or distributed in any form (including electronic) without the prior written permission of Terri Hazlett.