~ Oh! -THREAD!! ...and a reproduction perhaps? ~

~ Hello Friends & Folk ~

Oh I have had a busy couple of days...

and without going into much detail, let's just say I am

HOME SWEET HOME

peaceful    quiet    serene   home.

I had ordered a bunch of thread from The Gentle Art ~

 to replenish our little Needlework Shop here at the Farm....

so happy to have it greet me upon my return home!

some are Samplar Threads, some are Shaker Threads...

look at those colors ~

all of them deep, rich and loverly.

to me, this grouping below 

~ looks like a breezy meadow 

filled with swaying fronds of grasses and wildflowers ~

while this grouping below 

reminds me of Autumn nights spent near a bonfire 

and glowing pumpkins and jack o' lanterns  peering from hazy windowpanes ~

 what does this grouping below bring to your creative minds?

I see old typewriters, high-button shoes...

crisp lawn-dresses and old love letters scribed in sepia-toned India inks ~

it's funny how our minds work....

 All of the above threads are my favorite colors from The Gentle Art ~

I will be using them for upcoming cross stitch designs and can't wait to show them to you.

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In other news....

I have had this sampler in my collection for a while.

{ok, like over 10 yrs.}

and I know that I've showed it to you all before.

BUT.

I look at it everyday.

I pass by it at least 13 times a day, maybe more...and everytime I do, it calls to me:

"make me whole...make me complete...finish me"

 so I am toying with the idea of reproducing it for everyone

...as a freebie.

 I initially purchased it because I love the blue & brown threads....

and the olde olde linen.

very nubby and full of slubs ~ 

...and of course the woven wicker tray it is housed in.

 see that date worked in black threads? 

they say...that if a sampler is unfinished by the initial maker, 

and the maker dies before completion...

that another stitcher in the family would have stitched the date of the original maker's death 

but in black threads.

Hmmm.

Our stitcher's name was Eliza Chase.

She practiced her alphabets, letters and initials in thread here 

~ for eternity to see ~

oh so many little mistakes made... 

such insignificant markings only slightly off-course on a linen sea.

but there nonetheless.

and I will keep them in the chart that I will replicate to keep it true to the original ~

love the wonky stitches.

I will choose my threads as carefully as Eliza did, 

even though these colors may not represent those initially chosen by her,

for much-time and many years have faded them into the muted tones 

that we see and love so much here ~

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~ AND ~
Stay Tuned...

I will be releasing a new cross stitch, punch needle and rug hooking design this weekend ~
... all three are based off the same design, called:
"Tomato Season"
{and NEW Tomato Thread Winder coming, to match!}
 

Blessings from the Farm 

~ Lori