Linen and threads to start the "Pomegranate Sampler" by Darlene O'Steen -- I'm looking forward to this very much! The linen is Weeks Dye Works' in "Cocoa" with a collection of threads from Weeks, Classic Colorworks, and Simply Shaker, converted from the DMC list on the chart. I'm also relieved to see that although I had to choose both the fabric and the threads without seeing them in person, the results are fairly successful!
A crocheted snowflake for an exchange-by-mail with our lace group. This one is called "Matterhorn" one of the amazing variety from SnowflakePatterns. I had planned to use starch to block this, but it is so ethereal that I was concerned it wouldn't hold its shape for long, so I re-blocked it with full-strength white glue. This one is in Coats size 30 crochet cotton using a US9 steel hook, and, impressively, is not as difficult as it looks!
The second of my two Temecula Quilt Company kits, an unnamed pinwheel. I'm quietly pleased to find that I'm getting better both at piecing and at hand-quilting.
The "Léontine Coutances" sampler by Mamilou, a free reproduction chart of a ca.1900-1910 French sampler. I decided to work this to look a bit more like the original than like the chart, so I left out most of the now-missing stitches and kept some of Léontine's mistakes, though I confess I added a few of my own! I like the effect of using three strands of floss instead of the more-usual-these-days two -- it does have that plump "vintage" look, as I'd hoped -- and was not too much for this rather loosely-woven Charles Craft linen.
And my "Camptown Races," thanks to no less than three concerts of Julia's for which I sat knitting while waiting for the curtain to go up, is actually starting to look like it's going to be a scarf! Huzzah!
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