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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nAttic events always leave me with a full cup and the motivation to go back to old projects and start new ones. I am eager to return to WIPs that have languished. One is the Checkerboard Stag Sampler. I got really bogged down with the satin stitched flowers on this one. The chart was very confusing to me. But I inspected our shop model a few weeks ago when we had a customer who also was struggling with this part of the design, and now I know what I’m doing! Here is one completed flower and the long stem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was supposed to be my Sampler September stitch last year but I just couldn’t get into it. And I won’t work on it this September either…because…I want to finish Dorcas Haynes! And I think I can! I have a forthcoming post on my progress on Dorcas…Summer School saw me working away on the Queen Stitches that fill the leaves in the large floral arcade band and I got over that hurdle, putting the last one in on Sunday morning of Summer School (then I started the berry vine but miscounted in the first bit of the pattern and had to take it out. Should have quit while I was ahead!) Ayway…there really is only a small amount to go so I’m making that final push. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And once Dorcas is done, I will be excited to work on Mary Ellen Turner (by Fox and Rabbit, teachers at Summer School). She got some time this month. Here she is at the moment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her castle is all outlined and slowly being filled in with bricks and having the border applied. I may abandon the castle filling for stitching moments when I don’t want to count and follow the chart and get going with the bird and floral elements. It goes along pretty quickly compared to the specialty stitches in Dorcas so I always feel like “wow, I’m a fast stitcher” when I move from queen stitches to cross stitches! It’s all relative, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n So not sure if there will be other finishes aside from Dorcas this year, but as always I have my work cut out for me and many happy stitching hours to look forward to through the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Will there be an seasonal stitching to round out the menu? We will see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past weekend I worked through The Attic’s Summer School. It was a really fabulous event. I was a worker bee, not a participant, but still got to enjoy some good stitching time and socializing with all the lovely stitching people over the weekend. That is a real perk of working at Attic Needlework! Here is some inspiration for you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[199,247,202],"class_list":["post-7178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary","tag-dorcas-haynes","tag-fox-and-rabbit","tag-samplers-remembered"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2025-09-13-140713-1.jpg?fit=800%2C550&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178","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=7178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_2025-09-13-140608.jpg?resize=640%2C440&ssl=1\")
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