{"id":4435,"date":"2021-09-01T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2021-08-31T08:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T15:19:41","slug":"sampler-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4435","title":{"rendered":"Sampler September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last year it was really good to participate in “Sampler September” on Instagram because it gave me a lot of motivation to work on Bathya from Hands Across the Sea. I made some good progress getting that large sampler underway. However, then I put it away to get some other things done through the end of the year. Now it is time again to pull it out and see how much I can get done in a month!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I want to finished that white wave with flowers band, the pink and green alphabet bands that are started, and finally the pink and green flowers under that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is time consuming stitching that needs real concentration because I am stitching it reversibly. It is also not so portable. So I need a second project too. I originally was going to dedicate September to Dorcas Haynes, but I need to do more research into colors for her. Instead I will work on my version of Janet Reid by Chessie and Me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my version, I am eliminating all the alphabets at the top. I am centering the picture motifs. Then using the big alphabet font stitched in Algerian eyelets, I am writing “Garden of Delight.” It just struck me, looking at this sampler, that it WAS a delightful garden and I wanted to call it that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(My peacocks will be that brighter blue and red, not red and gray. Is this a weird color palette?)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It is charted in wool. I did have a false start with the wools and decided I would just use cotton. I am changing some of the colors to suit my tastes too. So this will no longer really be Janet’s sampler, but she was very inspiring! I hope you will like how it looks! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\u2026I\u2019ve got one more, H. Faulkner from Priscilla’s Pocket. I\u2019ve always though this was the most charming sampler. It\u2019s small and I already had all but two of the silks. I think I\u2019ll make it my \u201csmall\u201d for the month as it only measures about 4\u201dx6\u201d ! To be honest, I gave it an early start just to see how I liked the linen, which I am *almost* sure is the correct one (Weeks Straw-I have such a nice big piece of it but it was not labeled-it seems a little dark but is closest to what I need so I guess it doesn’t matter too much).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that’s my plan! If you want to follow my progress I will be posting every day of the month on Instagram at https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marysthread\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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