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Brick Stitch Bag

I am finally ready to share the journey with my German Brick Stitch Bag!

This project was absolutely wonderful to work on! It was challenging enough that I learned a lot, but I felt that I had enough skill to enjoy the process too. It’s very important to have a good balance of that when I am learning new things to prevent discouragement.

The project I chose to work on can be viewed more in detail HERE through the V&A Museum.

For my materials I used 28ct Irish evenweave linen, along with white, green, red and blue cotton DMC thread.

You can find this pattern HERE
With some advise, I started with the white lines. This was to give me structure for the colors I would fill in later. A 1×1 inch square would take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
Once the white was done, the colors were much easier apply!
I chose a closely sewn blanket stitch for the border.
I also attached some tassels (maybe I’ll do a third like the extent, but not sure yet).
I lined it with linen to prevent praying of the embroidery backing, and so that whatever was going into the little pouch would be protected.
Finally I added a cinch. The extent shows rather rough cinch-work done so I decided to mimic that. I chose not to line the top edge as in seen in the extent simply because I though the embroidery was worth showing off a bit more. The cinch is leather cording.

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