A Sarah Wodham Finish

Gentle Friends, so I wrapped up and put in the last stitches on Miss Sarah last night.  She has been a really fun stitch ... even the over one verse - a bit tedious - but well worth it in the end!!  Here's a snap...

Sarah Woodham 1770 - from Shakespeare's Peddler

1/13/20 - 4/12/20

Overdyed Cotton Conversion - 40 ct LL Buttercream

 The only changes I made were to work on some of the spacing in the verse, and the chain stitching for the two large girl's hair.  I chain stitched the one on the left and didn't like it much so I frogged it out and then restitched it over one and like it much better.  

I think I'll pull out a WIP and stitch on that tonight so I'll try and post that next week...

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edgar

A little More Stitchin'

Gentle Friends,  creeping up the left side...

... that little brown blob to the left of the urn is an over one bird... hard to tell.

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, I finished up the border and started in on the little doodads that surround the over one verse in the middle...

I think I'll work clockwise for a bit...

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, working my way around the border and have turned the corner at the bottom...

I should be able to finish up the border and start in the middle of the piece soon!!

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, stitching away on Sarah and here's a pretty craptastic snaperoo...

... sorry about the wrinkles but the lighting was weird.  

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, still working away on the border... here's a snap...

... as you can see I like to build up large sections at a time.  It's a great border to work on!

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, hot dam, the vine met up!!....... well it eventually met up let's say.......

Here's a little more of the "vine" story... I was stitching away on the right side to the bottom and made the turn to the left...then started stitching the left side and when I made the turn right I stopped and gave it a good look...then I gave it a good count, like 5 times... and found that the vine had dropped or I had added a single stitch to the right side.  I counted back on both sides and found the mistake.  

What had happened is the vine looks like each section is 11 stitches in length ...and for the most part, they are, however on each side near the top one section is only 10 stitches long.  I caught it on the right side but not on the left.  So... I sat for about 10 minutes looking at it and then picked up my little seam ripper and just frogged out the entire right side vine and restitched it.  

There was no way at this early stage I was going to try and fudge the whole sample ... everything works off this single long vine now everything will sort of fall into place!! Even with this sloppy unironed picture looking wonky as all get out I still say... Hot dam!!

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Freinds,  still plugging away on the border along the top... now I've turned the corner ...

... I may just stitch the vine all the way around just for peace of mind that it matches up.....

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, here's a little snaperoo of where I am on the border...

... I think this is a great border and it's what first drew me to this sampler... so I'll just keep bee-bopping along.....

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends so here's a snap of my New Year start...

The sampler is called "Sarah Woodham 1770" a sampler reproduction from Shakespeare's Peddler.  I'm stitching it on LL 40ct Buttercream using the overdyed floss conversion.  It's been around since 2009 and I've wanted to stitch it since I first got it, the border is really great!!

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edgar