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Jane Linn taught our guild a lesson on using watercolor pencils & markers with polymer clay. She had the great idea of having us create individual samplers with the different types of media (Inktense, marker & watercolor pencil shown here), plus the different types of glaze or finish (TLS, Varnish, and Translucent or White Translucent polymer clay). I love analyzing stuff like this, so I really enjoyed Jane's lesson!
Lapbook Sampler - Side 1: Tobin's Lab lapbook reference sheet underneath flap with mini-book instructions
Great dessert at Dragonfish Asian Cafe in Seattle: a sampler of their Lemongrass Crème Brulee, Chocolate Heaven and Mango Upside-Down Cake.
Farmers Wife Sampler Quilt block.
I've blogged about it, also showing the back and how I pressed my seams, here: hopetn.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/homemaker.html
Embroidered sampler, 1721
Anne Chase (American, born 1709)
Newport, Rhode Island
Silk on wool
12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (31.1 x 21 cm)
Promised Gift of Ann and Philip Holzer, 2001 (L.2001.53.4)
This delicate piece has taken pride of place as the earliest known sampler that can be attributed to Newport, an important colonial center. American samplers from the first half of the eighteenth century are exceedingly rare; this one is ornamented with floral motifs that still refer to the Baroque style of the previous century. Stitched with colorful silk threads on a wool ground, primarily on cross stitch, it features an acorn and carnation border, three wide floral bands, and a verse. Although unfinished, the piece is inscribed at the bottom: "Anne Chase Made This Sampler In/ The Thirteenth Year of Her Age 1721." Actually, the fact that it Is unfinished adds to the sampler's interest, since it teaches us about how sampler patterns were laid out, and the process by which the girls of Newport worked their samplers. It is not known why Anne never finished it—the most likely reason is a young girl's frustration with the intricacies of such fine work. Anne married Timothy Folger (1706–1750) on December 5, 1733, and lived on Nantucket with him and their five children for the remainder of her life.
I am nearing the end of my sampler. I have only a few more patches to fill. It was fun to learn new stitches. It has taken me out of any rut I may have been in and given me so many new stitches to use! Come to my blog, www.fiberluscious.blogspot.com and join me in my next stitching challenge- A crazy quilt perhaps?
Baby's name obscured for privacy. Blogged www.houseofhodgepodge.blogspot.com/2012/12/birth-sampler....
The border is borrowed from this free embroidery pattern by Badbird: zuill.us/andreablog/2009/03/01/marchs-embroidery-pattern/
This sampler was made by my great-grandmother, Caroline Southam, in 1890, when she was 10 years old and a pupil at Horsley Woodhouse School, in Derbyshire (UK). Some of the stitching has started to some undone now, but it's 120 years old and has been kept wrapped up in a drawer. I am thinking of getting it framed.
a close-up of a fiber sampler that contains "green" organic cotton, hand-dyed ecospun/cotton, loose camel down, tussah silk noil, scoured merino fleece, alpaca top, flax top, hemp top, recycled sari silk, hand-dyed bamboo, soy silk, and un-dyed merino.
I finished homework for next Saturday : basic points, step 3. So we now have a coral stitched lavender field, a palestrina stitched path border, some straight stitched red wall and chimney, grey zone of chevron stitches and a four-coloured herringbone stitched field of God knows what... and I almost forgot the blanket stitched black roof. I'm afraid the romantic landscape theme is slowly turning to some extremely strange stuff. Sorry guys, I'm not good at romantic landscapes, I guess my BDSM bottom gets up to the surface and shows through...