Portulaca!

 Working outside this afternoon.  Was planning to burn this toolbox until I spotted these portulacas at the greenhouse.

  Mom had them every year, started from seed.  I got several packs for Carole's narrow planter, perfect for such a display.

Benezet has become a difficult task.  The satin pickets are ten high, spaced two threads vertical but one thread horizontal.  I tried doing two linen threads but the picket became too wide.  Tonight I will use the Dazor to align top with bottom poke, and make sure the two down but one over is correctly placed.  Am I explaining that correctly?  

Hope you had a nice day.

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1782

 Since this will be finished into some sort of bag/pouch (it looks medieval to me), it needs more length and omitting the numeric row is a bad idea.  So I charted the date 1782 (from the history) in place of the numbers.  

 Adding a strip of leather to the bottom of this bag is being considered. 

As of now, the leather strip would be beneath the pickets, no bottom border, should result in a good length.

But maybe a wide ornate frame would be better?  Hmmm.

This is the info on the back of the chart regarding this unusual style.

Cross Stitch Antiques

Benezet Alphabet Sampler

Have a good day folks.

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Numbers

To stitch or not to stitch...

that is the question. 

Moving up to the top border until I decide. The satin peaks at the bottom will be another color change to more teal, as seen in the original.

My furnace has run for two days.  

Crabby doesn't even come close.

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Progressing

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Backside original + 1

The twice misted was the favorite, the original in its neutral dullness kept pulling me back, time was wasting, split the difference and mist it once!!!

And so it is.

With color changes of course.

This unusual sampler intrigued me, but I've not seen it stitched or even mentioned.  My social media grazing isn't vast, maybe that's a factor.  But this market item is certainly not the typical sampler.

Hope everyone had a safe weekend.

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Choosing sides

 Wow.  First time this happened, glad it did.

I'm starting a few projects, one is this sampler.

The linen I choose was more gray and dusty, perfect for this.  The others I looked at had too much gold/green tone.

But you know I'm never satisfied.  I mixed taupe and a touch of gold which was difficult with crossed fingers.  I have several very small spray bottles to lightly mist linen for a barely noticeable change.  One random spray would have been enough, but I did two.  Looks like the chart photo ... but it's not over.

To my surprise, There was a bonus to my task.  The mist was light enough to affect the surface only.  No dye came through!  I now have a choice of original, adding a light spray, or using the twice sprayed.  Never had this happen!  But yay!

 

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 Memorial day is always spent with quiet moments and thoughts of those who didn't make it home, tens of thousands resting alone for eternity in foreign lands.  My posts from 2013 and 2020.

https://samplers-and-santas.blogspot.com/2013/05/never-forget.html

https://samplers-and-santas.blogspot.com/2020/05/memorial-day.html

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