{"id":4579,"date":"2021-09-30T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2021-10-02T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T22:34:35","slug":"final-sampler-september-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"Final Sampler September Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you tired of hearing about my sampler stitching? Ok, here\u2019s the last one for a while, probably!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, I have finished H. Faulkner! Except she is no longer a reproduction sampler and she is no longer H. Faulkner. I ultimately decided to put my Grandma\u2019s name and birth year on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you like her? Since I made up my mind to change the name I didn\u2019t have any qualms about fixing up her border corners too. I think I made them a little more graceful. But if I was designing this sampler I would rework them all together to make them symmetrical. I should start designing my own samplers\u2026but these old ones are so charming and I do love all the little motifs. This one\u2019s butterflies and basket of fruits did not disappoint. I just love them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of butterflies back for the July People\u2019s Choice the theme was butterflies and I told you all about the butterfly garden I had planted for my Girl Scout gold award project. My mom sent me some photos! Here it was when I first planted it, I think this was 1996. (NB, this garden near my folks’ home in Indiana, where I lived in my teen years, you don’t really have this much green where I live in Arizona! I do miss the green!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See the cute butterfly house a neighbor made for the garden? The sedum (round things in front) are about the size of large cabbages. The other plants I remember are short yellow: coreopsis, spikey purple: liatris, white-pink on right: yarrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This view shows the gorgeous lilies that were donated to the garden and also the butterfly bushes in the back with their spikes of flowers that look like lilacs. I don’t remember the name of the prominent yellow flower that looks like black eyed susan.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And here it is more recently, maybe last summer? it\u2019s pretty amazing that it\u2019s still there at all even though it\u2019s less densely planted and with less variety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sedums are now probably 2ft wide and you can see there are still lilies. The parks department planted in some shrubs to fill in gaps after the butterfly bushes died. There is still plenty of the yellow black eyed susan thing which I don’t think is actually black eyed susan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And the pink yarrow is still there too!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I have another garden to share with you. Since finishing H Faulkner, I\u2019ve replaced it with Quaker Garden for my on the go stitching. ( I always have something to work on in the school pick up line or while waiting around for appointments). I\u2019ve made some progress on it as well this month even though it hasn\u2019t been a focus. It WILL be the focus for a finish next month though! It\u2019s too close not to! There are the border sections and a few outstanding motifs to finish up. This truly is a pretty little Quaker and I\u2019m so enjoying the colors from Thread Gatherer. I haven’t committed to a white yet as you can see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now to the piece de resistance! Here’s Bathya at the end of the month. I figure I probably spent about 20 sessions on her this month (I didn’t work on her if I was tired!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am sad that the month is over in a way because after complaining about it for weeks I finally have learned how to enjoy the diagonal double back stitch. I no longer have to refer to the directions every five minutes. I now am putting in many more stitches than I take out each session. It\u2019s working out! I\u2019ve got the hang of it! It\u2019s still slow going but I know I can do it. That is a Great Thing indeed. I don\u2019t find it necessary to take out my first stitches either-they aren\u2019t as bad as I thought. And I\u2019m super pleased with my progress. I\u2019ll don\u2019t think I can put Bathya away until next September. I\u2019d like to finish this band before I completely forget how to do it. But I feel like I\u2019ve got a lot of stitching calling my name as we approach the end of the year! Well I\u2019ll see what I can do. I\u2019ll try to get a couple nights a week for her to stay sharp with the stitch technique and get this band knocked out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you tired of hearing about my sampler stitching? Ok, here\u2019s the last one for a while, probably! First of all, I have finished H. Faulkner! Except she is no longer a reproduction sampler and she is no longer H. Faulkner. I ultimately decided to put my Grandma\u2019s name and birth year on it. Do you like her? Since I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,59],"tags":[169,61,205,155,62],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finished-2021","category-wips","tag-bathya","tag-blackbird-designs","tag-gardening","tag-hands-across-the-sea","tag-priscillas-pocket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/img_6386-e1633214064245.jpg?fit=1000%2C568&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}