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Great dessert at Dragonfish Asian Cafe in Seattle: a sampler of their Lemongrass Crème Brulee, Chocolate Heaven and Mango Upside-Down Cake.
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!
Continental breakfast of burritos of a one day conference held at the California Endowment Center. Great THP training.
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
Wherein I attempt shading with blackwork. I had a lot of fun with this and learned a lot too.
Blogged about here: backstitch.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/blackwork-shading-sam...
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?
Fabric -- Swanky by Moda
Here's the link for the instructions:
moosequilts.blogspot.com/2010/02/jelly-roll-sampler-quilt...
This quilt was sewn together without the sashing strips. Quilted with an overall floral design.
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...
Double weave Sampler
finished 17 April, 2011
My first project for my intermediate weaving class. We used two different warps, one on top of the other. the top warp was hand-dyed, and the bottom warp is a black and white striped pattern. Both warps are linen, and embroidery floss is used for the weft throughout.
I made this for my niece's Christening. It is mainly applique and embroidery with ribbons, buttons and embellishments onto a linen background.
Un sampler fait pour la mère d'une amie à l'occasion de la fête des mères. Le top rose est en soie sauvage.
A first try out for the Penny Sampler, using needle turn applique. Now really trying to figure out how to add it to the sampler, I love the dog wood petal shape!
And it turns out I really like how the background fabric showing through. I considered using sew and turn applique, but this time needle turn and show-through give me just the right organic feeling...
Start of sampler using Van Dyke stitch
variations. Stitch tutorial can be found here
www.pintangle.com/journal/2010/8/17/tast-2010-week-25-van...
Mixing my color scraps for the 'main' fabric and printed whites for my background fabric, I created a completely unique look and layout for Tula Pink's Modern Sampler.
Free motion machine quilted by Marcia Wachuta of Marcia's Crafty Sewing & Quilting
I've finished my blocks for the Summer Sampler Series QAL - Yay!
I have LOVED this QAL. Some of the blocks I would never have thought I was capable of making (top left for example) but thanks to the excellent tutorials I've managed without too much seam ripping :)
Sampler Socks from the book Sock Yarn One Skein Wonders. Yarn is Same Difference from the Knitting Goddess, in colourway Cloudy Skies.
I thought this “Same Difference” yarn -- half a skein in white and blue, the other other half skein in blue and white -- would be a good match for these sampler socks, which each use a different combination of stitch patterns.
This is my first successful attempt at knitting socks!
Sharon B's new TAST challenge starts this week.
Blogged at,
konnykards-musingsofaseniorcitizen.blogspot.com/2012/01/t...
Friendship Sampler
by friends quilt.
Many donors are simply friends. Some of us are really proud to put our names on a difficult project. The Festival allows space to recognize the creator and the people who helped them as welll as the buyer. Let me tell you they believe in writing thank you letters to each and every donor/decorator. In 30 years I've only had 1 personal thank you from a buyer. I nearly fell thru the floor in shock. If it weren't for the buyer, these gestures of goodwill and thankfulness would not be possible on this scale. The endowment board of the hosp. would still be stuck with the measely 2% hocking tickets for visiting ice shows.