Tomato, Tomahto.

This stitch is my favorite piece to date and a lot of planning and love went into making it happen. As a new-ish designer, I wanted to get on the sampler bandwagon and I love a good red sampler. But - how could I make it my own?

Inspired by my grandmother's collection of stitching notions, I decided that my entry into the sampler world needed to be a tomato. A red, sampler tomato. Everything we love about the stitching aesthetic in one place. And here she is - ripe and ready for you to enjoy.

The chart includes two designs - the panels needed to make the band sampler tomato as well as the flat band sampler using the same alphabet and motifs if you'd like a little warm up. Choose your tomato adventure but know that the shaped finish isn't as tough as it looks. If you've made a biscornu, you'll find this very similar. There's a full photo finishing guide included and I recorded the whole process so watch out for a video tutorial coming soon.

I stitched the tomato on 36 count Red Rose linen from Number 12 Stitch Co and her finished size is about 4.5" tall, 6" across, with a circumference of 16".

The printed pattern is now shipping, so ask your LNS or ONS to find it for you through Hoffman Distributing or here on my wholesale shop!