A Little Stitchin' Finish, and a Little Stitchin' Start

Gentle Friends, so I wrapped up 1798 Quaker last night and made a teeny tiny start on my next piece.  Here are some snaps of both projects.... first up...

1798 Quaker Sampler by Goode Huswife

40 count "Barn Owl" from Linens by design

Using the Called for NPI Silks

1/20 - 3/18/2019

It was a really fun piece to stitch.  I loved the colour changes and the use of greens and browns.  I modified many of the initials and even changed one of the motifs from a small over 1 section to a larger over 2 medallion.  

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My next stitchity project is from stash... it's a chart I've had for years and years languishing in the pile.  I really don't remember how I found out about the sampler in the first place, I must have seen it on a blog.  Here's the tiniest of starts...

Swan Pond Sampler 1797 

by The Knoxville Tennesse Chapter of the EGA

40 count "Ale" from PTP

Various Overdyed Flosses

It's a great sampler with two alphabets, a great depiction of the Ramsey house, a couple of bowls of fruit and a super border. Could you ask for a better-built sampler!! You can read more about this great Historic Home HERE. I love the idea of this sampler and that the local EGA created this piece in honor of the house and the history of the area.  Although the sampler is charted for DMC I again chose to work out my own floss combination from my overdyed floss stash.  

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There you go sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again!!

Good Words, Good Thoughts, Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, starting to wrap up the 1789 Quaker with the addition of all the initials... here's a shot of where I left off...

... I'm adding in all the bits, pieces and extra stitches along with the charted initials for fill.  It's interesting that they, the initials are scattered about and some are over 1 and some over 2.  It almost feels as I stitch that they were added as an afterthought where there was space.  Oh, well, trying to puzzle out why something was stitched over two hundred years ago is futile so I'll just move along and work it out until I finish up.

I've picked out my next project.  Something I've had in my stash for years and although not a "Historic" sampler, it's a sampler all the same.  Based on mid-Atlantic pieces the piece I think it will be fun to stitch up... and it has a great border!!

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There you go sports fans.  Thanks for stopping by do stop again!!

Good Words, Good Thoughts, Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little More Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, it was a nice quiet weekend.  The high point was having dinner at a friends house, then they screened "Chinatown" in their home theatre, so nice to see a great film on the full screen!!  

I sort of stitched on and off throughout the weekend and here's where I left off...

... I think I've come up with a good idea for stitching in the initials and bits to replicated the fullness of this stitched piece.

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There you go sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again!

Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, not too much going on, so here's a quick snaperooo of the 1798 sampler...

... it's a wrinkly mess, but you get the idea of how it's coming along...  

It's a very wet rainy Monday here by the Bay and it'll be a rainy week so we'll be mighty damp for quite a few days!!

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There you sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again!!

Take care,

edgar

A Little More Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, I'm slowly moving along the bottom part of the sampler from R to L.... here's a shot...

... thus far it's been a pretty easy stitch, and so long as I pay attention as I stitch the mis-stitches are few and far between...!!  This is an antique sampler and it was charted as it was originally stitched in the 18th century.  This "original " charting includes quite a few mis-stitches and wonky bits.  I have, as I stitch along fixed a few of them, so long as they don't shift other motifs or create problems down the road.  Mostly I've just evened up some of the problems that would drive me crazy, like missing or badly placed stitches.  I think I've come up with a plan for the inclusion of initials.... some that are meaningful to me and some that are just filler....  there are so many in this piece!!

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There you go sports fans!!  Thanks for stopping by do stop again!

"Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deed"

edgar

A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, so another weekend wooshed by once again and as I sit here on a cold (45 degrees outside) Monday morning I think back and say... lordy, that long nap yesterday would be nice to repeat just about now!!!  On TCM they had a really good line up of musicals so after I got home from the 8am Mass I ran the Who Hounds out for potty then flipped on on the tube, sat down with a big cup of coffee... then wrapped up in a quilt and promptly fell asleep.  Rico was down in the Valley visiting his mom this weekend so the house was quiet, except for the TV.  I had planned to stitch all day, but the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry... you know...so here's a shot where I left off on my stitchin'...

... it's still a great piece to work on and I really like the colour changes along the way.

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That's about it for today sports fans.  Thanks for stopping by do stop again!!... 

"Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds"

edgar

A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, still working away on the Quaker and here's a snaperoo...

...I made a mistake on the flower looking bit in that open space between the two large motifs on the right side...and had to frog-it out...I hate it when I'm off 1 stitch and can't fudge it to make it work, oh well, them's the breaks I guess!!

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That's about it for today sports fans thanks for stopping by do stop again!

Take care,

edgar 

A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, it was a windy and raining weekend.  After a little running around I settled into a stitching couple of days...here's the progress...

... just moving along down the right side to the corner...

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That's about it for today sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again!!

Take care,

edgar

A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, still moving along with the 1798 Quaker.... here's a snap...

...sorry about the "q-snap" wrinkles, but it was late but you get the idea...it's a very relaxing piece to work on in the evening.  

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We went on a small road trip over the weekend...more about that later!!  That's about it for today sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again!!

Take care,

edgar

A Little Stitchin' Finish and a Stitchin' Start....

Gentle Friends, well, you all knew this day was fast approaching...and it arrived last week with a finish of my Christmas stitch...here's a snap...

Scandinavian Christmas Sampler 

by Modern Folk Embroidery

11/17 - 1/15

40ct Vintage Navy Bean

"Poinsettia" Gloriana Silk

It was a super piece to stitch and was perfect for the season!!  I used just under two skeins of the 12 stranded silk and have quite a bit left over.... so I have my eye on another red monochromatic piece for stitching later in the year.  It was an easy peasy purchase from Jacob's sites.  The chart was easy to follow and I can highly recommend MFE and will be back for another project.

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I also started a new piece...I'm a "one at a time" type stitcher.  I've tried doing the rotation thing, but it just didn't work for me...so here's the new piece...

"1798 Quaker" Goode Huswife

40ct Vintage Pecan Butter 

Recommended NPI Silks

It's a pitiful little start but I'm plugging away and am really enjoying stitching a Quaker piece again.  I haven't stitched a Quaker in a really long time and this chart has been in the "to do" pile for years.  It moves to the top...it moves to the bottom, but it was always in the pile and one of the charts on the back burner to stitch.  I think the reason I never got this piece going was I wasn't sure if I was going to stitch in all the initials.  If your not familiar with this particular Quaker almost every spare space between the main motifs is filled in with dozens of initials...they meant something to the original stitcher, but not so much to me...so do I stitch them in or not??? 
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There you go sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again!!
Take care,
edgar