Since my camera is still hors de combat, I will instead share my short list of charts-awaiting-stitching. This is not, mind you, all of the charts I have, as I've managed to collect any number of free charts in the three-ish years that I've been interested in samplers -- and certainly more than a few of them I still hope/intend to work! -- but I can definitely see that my tastes have changed a bit with my increasing experience. It is also, I now know not only from seeing other people's photos of boxes upon boxes of charts that they would need multiple lifetimes to work, but also from my own stash, how very difficult it can be sometimes to resist temptation! I actually try purposely to be circumspect now in my purchases. And so, until I can get my own photos, here is my list. The first two are the ones, along with the "Quaker Virtues", that are actually in progress; the rest are in no particular order.
Above, "The Wisdom Sampler" by Donna Vermillion Giampa of Vermillion Stitchery. This was on someone's "100 Best Samplers" Pinterest page, and I was quite intrigued by it. It was long out-of-print at the time, after Donna Giampa's death in 2015, but recently her sister began selling the chart again. It is in style sort of halfway between "reproduction" and "new", definitely with an antique flavor, as it were, but a sort of modernity that I can't quite pinpoint. Charming, though, clearly! I have just started it, at the area around the picket fence.
"Zoé Elie," a free chart from Isabelle Mazabraud-Kerlan of Reflets de Soie. So very pretty! I started this as a small project to take on our vacation, when we went to Tahoe for a week, and am perhaps not quite halfway along.
"Quaker Friendship Sampler" by Becky Dorrie. I keep passing this over for more difficult things, it seems, but that does it a disservice, for it is a classic new old-style Quaker sampler, and that really speaks to me.
"Virtue Outshines the Stars" by Darlene O'Steen. The last of my "O'Steen Big 3", the three charts of hers that I felt I utterly must do. Not that I would mind doing others of hers, of course -- and there are no less than three band-sampler charts in the revised edition of The Proper Stitch -- but the "Pomegranate," the "Floral," and this one just really speak to me. I admit that I'm actually putting off doing this "last" one, so that I can continue to anticipate it!
"Laurence Briquet" by Reflets de Soie. Oh, it is so difficult to choose between Mazabraud-Kerlan's beautiful reproduction samplers! I think the little waterfall on this one won me over. I still have "Marthe Sallé" on my wish list as well, but have restrained myself so far, though with great difficulty. I actually have both fabric and threads for this, so it may be next in the frame.
"Ragamuffin #2" by Shakespeare's Peddler, my most-recent purchase. I fell rather hard for this one, I admit, the moment I saw it. The muted greys and greens, the flowers, the unique border -- oh my!
And "Quaker Samplings III" and "II" by Ellen Chester of With My Needle. The last two of my quintet of "Samplings" -- I have already worked I, IV, and V. I'm leaving the dated one for last (!). I know that Chester has released at least two more in her series since I discovered these, and it is not without difficulty that I restrain myself, but it seems to me that they should go together on a wall, and five is rather a lot, after all ...
They are so lovely ! <3
Thanks for sharing them.
Posted by: Hélène | July 01, 2023 at 06:19 AM