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Wedding Sampler designed from adapted patterns from CrossStitcher magazine and Cross Stitch Crazy magazine; alphabets from various magazines, and flower border from "Cross Stitch Cuties" published by D&C.
I made these blocks with the Camp Follower Quilt Along. I needed something to use as I learned how to use a long arm machine and chose to put a few of these blocks together. Loads of fun! (Both the blocks and the quilting).
blogged undertheeveningstar.blogspot.com/2010/12/looking-back.html
Wednesday 23 April 2014: Millennium Sampler #7
This is the 7th section of the Millennium Sampler that I finished stitching on 1st January 2000. It depicts Sir Isaac Newton discovering gravity and the building of St Paul's Cathedral by Sir Christopher Wren.
Isaac Newton was supposedly sitting under an apple tree when he observed an apple fall to the ground. It started him thinking about how the apple, which had no acceleration while it was attached to the tree, could suddenly gain acceleration and fall to the ground. And so he developed The Universal Law of Gravitation.
Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, took 35 years to complete. It is well loved by Londoners and visitors alike. During the Blitz of the Second World War incendiary bombs destroyed much of London but fire wardens and volunteers stood defiant and refused to let St Paul's be destroyed. They worked tirelessly to put out every little fire that started on the dome and managed to prevent it from going the way of many of London's other buildings
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Badly lit but finished - front (left) and back views. Just awaiting some sort of hanger thingie from Himself, and ready in plenty of time for the fair!
Long term new project that I am looking forward to start.
Blogged: lulubloom.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/project-golden-sampler
Growing up as the son of a craft-loving English teacher, I spent many hours pursuing crafts and playing Scrabble. As I grew older, I believed that in order to fit in with my peers, I had to be in the closet about my crafting, eventually stopping my creative activities altogether. My Scrabble playing, however, continued and turned into a life-long love of the study of language intersecting with my current art practice.
In 1996, I signed up for a textiles class, thereby reawakening my dormant artistic side. I am attracted to textiles because textiles are like language – both are subtle, yet powerful. Also, both can protect, expose, reveal social position, and show affiliation. I later learned that the words textile and text are derived from the same root, and several of my earlier pieces are focused on this text-textile connection.
My focus has since expanded beyond this literal connection to the multi-layered texts or readings of the cloth. Recent themes that have emerged are the socialization of American men to be violent and conflicting views on sexuality/masculinity. My hope is that upon reading my work, viewers will engage in a dialogue about the confining nature of behavioural norms.
In the past, needlework served several purposes for girls/young women, including allowing girls who were denied a formal education a chance to learn the ABCs, as well as showing suitors that the girls were proficient stitchers (and thus marriageable material). I’ve appropriated the sampler form in my investigation of how I, as a Euroamerican gay white male born in 1964, have been educated to perform my gender.
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Bren Ahearn uses textile crafts as a medium to explore the contentious boundaries between straight and gay masculinity, homoeroticism in sports, and the violence that sometimes arises from men's adherence to societal behavioral norms.
Christmas Sampler in red, green & white. Assortment of rice crispy treats, oreos, pretzels, & graham crackers.
yOuKfOu - Test Lomo Sampler ...
Photo Hall Film Sampler 200 / 33 views
Expired film ( 06/2006 ) receive by Marie Focant ( Belgium )
Lomo Sampler
Boutique Enterprise, Baudour ( Belgium )