I’ve been working on my strawberry sampler book for about an hour most evenings and I’ve now finished the last two pages. I think this one just needed the edge stitching after I last shared it with you. This is the hem-stitch page.

The next page to do was the hardanger one. I found this one quite tricky as the instructions were really not very clear, I ended up googling how to do the pulled stitch for the strawberries as the diagram and the picture just weren’t clear at all. The instructions for the diamonds were also contradictory as it said one stitch on the chart and another in the instructions!

I’m now stitching the inside cover lining page which has the index for the front of the book and a blackwork page for the back. I’m also going to start stitching the pages together, I’ve found some stiff calico to stiffen the pages a little, I’ll just put a square in the middle as I’m whip-stitching the edges together.

I also need to finish the cover, it needs a hem-stitched folded border but I’m also tempted to undo and restitch the centre four sided stitch as I think it’s in the wrong colour. The instructions said to stitch in cream, so I did, but the cover isn’t cream linen and there’s lots of a darker thread I’ve not used!

Here’s the other completed pages…