I have messed around with embroidery as a child and as an adult. I didn’t realize there were actual embroidery stitches other than the straight stitch, the backstitch and the cross stitch.
15 embroidery stitches from thesprucecrafts.com
Learning new stitches
I wanted to make a modern sampler. I didn’t want to follow someone else’s pattern. I realized that music notation had lines and shapes so I adapted it to create this whimsical design. For the lines, I used back stitch, chain stitch, stem stitch, split stitch, and whip stitch. For the note heads and symbols, I used brick stitch, satin stitch (flat and padded), blanket stitch, French knots, and woven wheel stitch.
From my sketchbook
