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Petites Lettres Rouges SAL

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Petites Lettres Rouges is a free chart offered by Blackbird Designs in 2009. The Fans of Blackbird Designs Facebook group decided to stitch this one as a SAL (Stitch-a-Long) in 2020. Since the chart was free anyone in the group was free to join us. We each picked our favorite fabric and floss colors to use. I decided to use 28ct rose Monaco that I had in my stash and Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe floss (Claret, February Flowers, and Forever in My Heart.)

We started stitching on February 15th, but you are free to start at any time. This one I am going to stitch in memory of my paternal grandmother Sammie Lipscomb Bayless who was born in 1890.

Petites Lettres Rouges by Blackbird Designs.
Petites Lettres Rouges by Blackbird Designs

Finished stitching: February 19, 2020

Petites Lettres Rouges by Blackbird Designs.
Petites Lettres Rouges by Blackbird Designs

Now to decide how to finish it.

November 2020: And here it is finished as a drum by Vonna Pfeiffer. I love it.

Linen And Threads – Mystery Sampler SAL

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Another Stitch-A-Long I discovered posted on Facebook, was the Linens and Threads Mystery Sampler SAL that is offered by Linens and Threads in Australia. This is at least the 4th year they have offered this and all of the projects are stunning.

The one for 2020 is called Friends and Family and is inspired by antique Quaker and Vierlande samplers.  It includes both traditional and new motifs, and allows you to personalize your sampler to celebrate your Friends and Family.

Each month on the first, Linens and Threads will release a new piece of the Mystery Sampler as a free downloadable chart. And along with this years charts, each month will feature a bonus chart of an ornament.

Linens and Threads 2020 Mystery Sampler – Family and Friends

The sampler itself has a stitch count of 244 wide x 244 high so not small. You can read all about this years Mystery Sampler as well as the ones offered for previous years from the links below. And the charts are FREE.

If you decide to stitch one of these beauties, join the Facebook group created for stitchers Linen And Threads – Mystery Sampler SAL, There you can post your progress and see photos of all the beautiful creations and color choices.

The 2019 A Peacock’s Garden is pictured below.

A Peacock's Garden by Linens and Threads
A Peacock’s Garden by Linens and Threads
2020 January Ornament
2020 January Ornament
February Ornament by Linen and Threads.
February Ornament
March Ornament by Linen and Threads.
March Ornament

Vintage Vase by Verbena

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As if I really needed to join another Stitch A Long (SAL)!! Someone had posted on Facebook about one being offered by Irina Veber of Verbena Cross Stich, a Russian Designer. After looking at her charts, I decided I needed to join.

You need to be a member of the Verbena group.

You need to show your progress and the final result in the group.

Registration for the project and distribution of patterns is from January 27 to February 14, 2020. The term of the SAL is from January 27 to may 31, 2020. To get the pattern, let me know what pattern you’d like to stitch.

You can choose a pattern in my store by following the link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/VerbenaCS

Please share information about this group and SAL and invite fellow stitchers to join us in this adventure.

So I visited her shop and made my choice of Vintage Vase pictured above. The other one I really like was Quaker Flower.

I decided to use a piece of 16ct aida from Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe along with some of Nancy Turner’s beautiful floss to stitch this project.

Vintage Vase supplies

Floss Colors I am using are:

  • Weathered Tan
  • Primitive Purple
  • Jacob’s Ladder
  • Pale Lavender Grey
  • Verbena
  • Soft Mauve
  • Best Friends

Think about joining us. You can find her the Verbena Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/VerbenaCS/

Progress picture stitching Vintage Vase.
Vintage Vase progress
Vintage Vase completed.
Vintage Vase completed

And here it is June 2022 and this one has finally made its way out of the “finished stitching drawer” into a frame. Just an inexpensive frame from Hobby Lobby that was on sale for half price. Not as elegant as my custom ordered frames but no longer hidden in the drawer.

Vintage Vase framed.

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe Valentine’s Day Giveaway

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Many of you already know I am a big fan of Nancy Turner and her Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe floss, fabric and charts. Nancy so generously shares her floss, fabric, and charts with the stitching community on a regular basis.

For Valentine’s Day, she is giving away:

  • Be True in Heart chart
  • Love one Another chart
  • A new set of Red floss that she is carding now
  • Love and you shall be Loved Quaker chart
  • Friendship’s Love mini sampler chart…..and include all the floss you need to complete it! Design size is 179×127, on 16 or 32ct it will fit a standard 11×14 frame. I try to do all my designs to fit standard frames.

That’s five chances you have to win one of these great gifts. So head on over to her blog to enter for a chance to win one of her Valentine’s Giveaway prizes. Two of the charts are shown below.

Love and You Shall Be Loved Quaker Sampler
Friendship’s Love Sampler

Thank you Nancy for being so generous with us.

All Joys for Thine by Blackbird Designs

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The newest release from Barb and Alma of Blackbird Designs is All Joys for Thine.

All Joys for Thine chart cover.
Chart Cover All Joys for Thine

This one is stitched on 36ct Heartland linen from Picture This Plus using Weeks Dye Works and Classic Colorworks floss  (Barn Door, Cinnamon Toast, Fool’s Gold, Hazelnut, Pine Needles, Polliwog, Stormy Night) and Weeks Dye Works (Dirt Road, Sage, Sandcastle). The stitch count is 165w x 135h which makes the stitched size on 36 or 18ct 9 1/8 x 7 1/2. If there is no over 1 stitches, I will use 16ct aida which will make the stitched size 10 3/8 x 8 1/2. Another beautiful chart from my favorite designers.

Started Stitching: October 13, 2020
Completed Stitching: December 19, 2020

Color Changes:

  • DMC 610 or WDW Dirt Road
  • DMC 831 or WDW Sage/VMSS Sage Powder
  • DMC 422 or WDW Sandcastle
  • DMC 3858 or CC Barn Door
  • DMC 3859 or CC Cinnamon Toast
  • DMC 3828 or CC Hazelnut
  • DMC 3011 or CC Pine Needles
  • DMC 830 or CC Polliwog/VMSS Moss & Ivy
  • DMC 3768 or CC Stormy Nights
  • CC Fool’s Gold/VMSS Antique Gold
All Joys for Thine Progress.
All Joys for Thine Progress
All Joys for Thine progress 12/4
All Joys for Thine

I decided to stitch this one in honor of my sister, Nan, and her husband, Jim and the year they were married.

And framed ready for spacers and glass.

All Joys for Thine

Alphabet Heart Sampler

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I first saw this chart featured on the Dyeing to Stich Facebook page and went searching for it. Turns out it was posted on DMC Threads Blog as a Back to School Freebie. The last post to this blog is dated 2015 so I am not sure it is being kept up. The chart is apparently no longer available. If I am able to locate it again, I will post a link. Glad I saved it the first time around.

heart-sampler

The picture shown above is from the DMC Threads post and shows the chart stitched with DMC Variations. Others have stitched this chart in shades of pink to rose.

Dyeing to Stitch offers a pale pink linen in a variety of counts to stitch this with Classic Colorworks Rosebud thread. If you are a member of the Dyeing to Stitch Facebook group, you can view a photo of the finished piece.

FEBRUARY 2021 I recently saw a couple of folks post this in a Facebook stitching group I belong to and decided to contact DMC to see if the chart was posted anywhere and if I could share it. They graciously sent me the original chart which I am sharing here. There is also a jpg image that may print a slight bit sharper.

In looking through my stash, I already had a piece of 16ct cream aida gridded to the correct size so decided to use it with three shades of Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe floss, Red Rooster, Old Red Roses, and Fairy Pink.

Alphabet Heart Sampler by DMC
Alphabet Heart Sampler by DMC
Alphabet Heart Sampler by DMC

I finished stitching this one on February 20, 2021. I thought I had a piece of fabric I could use for the back but it is to red rather than a cranberry red so will need to keep looking. I am glad to finally have this one stitched.

And here it is June 2021 and it has been finished and on the way home to me.

DMC Alphabet Heart

Cross-Stitch Heart with Quaker Motifs

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I recently saw this sweet design posted by a friend on Facebook so I went in search to see if I could find it. Success.

Quaker Heart stitched in red and blue.
Quaker Heart

Janice Wood created a sweet cross-stitch heart, which incorporates a traditional Quaker sampler motifs with an alphabet on one side of the heart and the date and recipient’s initials on the reverse.

You can read the entire article Cross-Stitch Heart with Quaker Motifs and download the charts.

I stitched this on 16ct white aida with Sulky 12 weight 712.

A Christmas Quaker Medallion

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A Quaker Christmas Medallion by Guilia Manfredini of Giulia Punti Antichi was published in the August 2015 issue of Just CrossStitch magazine. I had seen the finished ornament posted in another group so went in search of the magazine. Luckily another stitcher saw my post and sent me the magazine.

A Christmas Quaker Medallion
A Christmas Quaker Medallion

The recommended fabric was 32ct natural/white dots Belfast petit point linen but I am not a fan of linen or dotted fabric. I chose to stitch it on 28ct Monaco as the lettering and the date is stitched over 1. The recommended floss is Thread Gatherer Silk ‘N Colors so I am using a combination of DMC and Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe Floss.

  • TG 317 Dung Paper/DMC 3011
  • TG 055 Camouflage Green/DMC 936
  • TG 074 in the burgundy/DMC 814

My colors:

  • VMSS Olde Cranberry
  • DMC 936
  • VMSS Something Wicked for the bird.
  • DMC 3011
Quaker Christmas Medallion
Quaker Christmas Medallion

Now to decide how to finish this one. I also want to stitch another one in brighter colors.

November 2020: And here it is finished by Vonna Pfeiffer.

Blackbird Designs Christmas

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Just after Christmas I received a lovely surprise box from my very favorite designers, Barb and Alma of Blackbird Designs. Just look at all the goodies that were included.

Blackbird Designs Christmas Box.
Blackbird Designs Christmas Box

The charts were ones from a recent retreat held in November 2019 at The Attic in Mesa AZ. I had seen them posted earlier and really wanted to stitch the two smaller ones. The large sampler, Little Birds, I will hold for a later start as it is BIG. Two pieces of 18ct Heartland aida were also included. Needless to say, I am a very happy camper. Thank you Barb and Alma.

I decided to start on Autumn Abundance first, so gridded the piece of fabric and started stitching. I have stitched two of the five sections.

Autumn Abundance two of the five sections stitched.
Autumn Abundance two of the five sections stitched
Autumn Abundance all five sections

I asked another stitcher, Jan Emerick, if she would finish this one for me. Here is the finished piece and I love it especially the little twig at the top.

Autumn Abundance finished as a pindrum

Home of a Needleworker

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Home of a Needleworker by Little House Needleworks has been in my stash for quite a few years now. The Little House Needleworks Facebook group offered a Samplers Sunday SAL for 2020 and I figured this might just be the encouragement I needed to get started. The official starting date was December 29, 2019 and while I had my supplies assembled, I did not actually start stitching until January 4, 2020.

Supplies for Home of a Needleworker

I chose to stitch this one on 16ct Heartland aida from Picture This Plus using Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe threads.

  • DMC Ecru/VMSS Olde Buttercream
  • DMC 355/VMSS Autumn Bounty Dark
  • DMC 356/VMSS Autumn Bounty Light
  • DMC 420/VMSS Primitive Stitching
  • DMC 729/VMSS Dried Cinnamon
  • DMC 869/VMSSS titching Together
  • DMC 3051/VMSS Fern Fronds
  • DMC 3052/VMSS Spring Grass
  • DMC 3371/VMSS Harvest Brown
  • DMC 3828/VMSS Summer Playhouse
Progress as of January 5, 2020

I put the final stitches in this piece on April 30, 2020. I’m going to have a friend help me finish it as a quilted wall hanging.

I went to visit my friend, Beryl Lawson, who is a quilter and fabric collector. I wanted to see if she had anything in her fabric collection that might work with this piece as a wall hanging. Look at this beautiful fabric she gave me.

Now I need to get to work finishing this piece which I am going to hang on the door of my craft room/office.

And here it is finished and ready to hang. I had a hard time sewing a straight line because of my poor eyesight and I could not hold the IPad straight enough to get a good picture.