Sampler Classes
and Events
Shops and guilds may use this area of the newsletter to
promote classes and events. Please make sure that you follow the format and
guidelines given below in order to be fair to all. This is not a complete
calendar. Events aren't repeated in each newsletter until the event takes place
so plan accordingly when sending in information about your event.
Calendar information
needs to be limited to the following:
Date:
Event:
Location:
Contact:
Date: July 17-18, 2010
Event: classes with Ellen Chester, With My Needle (Fruit of the
Vine Sampler Huswif and Friends in Stitches)
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Contact:
bethwalter14@hotmail.com or
nicole.rutledge@sbcglobal.net
Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010
Event: Lake Michigan Sampler Guild (http://www.lakemichigansamplerguild.org)
presents A Day with Tricia Wilson Nguyen (Jacobean Silk Purl Flower,
Abby Cozens Family Record sampler and lecture on 17th c. historical
embroidery)
Location: Wheaton Community Center; Wheaton, IL
Contact: Lynn,
programs@lakemichigansamplerguild.org
2010 Group Stitch-Along Projects--June
L Haworth (The Marking Samplar) Stitch-Along
SAL leader--Darlene
Darlene@themarkingsamplar.com
Hi Everyone. I hope that you are stitching along and doing
OK. If you are having any trouble or have any questions, please feel free to
contact me. E-Mail--Darlene@themarkingsamplar.com,
or Phone-- 865.690.7007. From the reports that I have received, some of you may
be finished well before December of this year.
First, Some History for Lucy’s Mother:
Martha Fawcett, Lucy’s Mother, was born in 1761 and died in
1853. She was the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Fawcett. Martha was a
recorded elder of Marsden Monthly Meeting. Martha and James Haworth had four
children: Hannah (b. 1789, d. 1829 – Ackworth Scholar No. 2195; 1800 – 1802);
Charles (b. 1792, d. 1823 – Ackworth Scholar No. 2280; 1801- 05); Caleb (b.
1795, d. 1879) – Ackworth Scholar No. 2794; 1806-09 and Lucy (b.1802 – Ackworth
Scholar No. 3522; 1813-16). Hannah, Lucy’s older sister, never married and, was
most likely, a spinster. In 1848, Lucy and her mother, along with her brother
Caleb, are listed in the records of the Central Relief Committee of London
Yearly Meeting as financial contributors to the ongoing relief effort in
Ireland. Lucy was clearly not married at that time, and is unlikely to have
married later given that she was already about 46 years of age. Perhaps Lucy
remained single in order to care for her mother, who lived to the advanced age
of 92.
In the next newsletter, Lucy’s story will be continued.
Stitching for the month of June 2010:
L Haworth’s sampler is completed totally in cross stitch.
Therefore, this sampler is very easy to stitch. The next motifs that should be
stitched are:
• Row 1 - & Row 2 - These are a grouping of motifs that are at the end of row
one and two (along the right side of Lucy’s sampler). This Flower grouping
consists of two whole motifs and two that are ‘half motifs’. I suggest stitching
the letters R, Y. C and the Z at (at the top), if you haven’t already done so.
Progress Reports
From: Ellen
ellen@withmyneedle.com
Since I'm not a very good "rotation" stitcher, I decided to
complete L. Haworth before going on to other projects. To the right
is my finished sampler which is now at my framer's. Unfortunately the
frame we chose has been discontinued so we're now looking for another one.
At the bottom of the sampler, I backstitched my name,
location, and the current year. This information won't show when the
sampler is framed.
Acorn Sampler Sewing Case (With My Needle)
Stitch-Along
SAL Leader--Darby
darbylogan@aol.com
We are stitching right along. For
the June, we will begin work on the written verse at the bottom of the sampler
and continue working on the interior band sections. We all are looking forward
to summer and will enjoy a slower pace with more stitching time! I know I will
be able to catch up to the others in the group now that my children are out of
school!
Happy Summer and Stitching.
Our Members Share
From: Susan jrvsh@shaw.ca
I just wanted to let people know that wonderful things can
happen. Our local Embroiderers' Guild had a members' show and several of us
acted as docents over the week. While I was there one afternoon, a lady came in,
looked at the pieces of needlework (over 110), then came up to the desk and
asked if I knew of anyone that would like a couple of old samplers!!!!! Of
course I said yes - me! She explained that her mother had picked them up in an
antique shop in the 1950s, and that her daughter didn't want them. In fact, her
daughter thought they were just junk. I could hardly sleep that night, and the
next morning as soon as I decently could, went to her house to get them.
I was blown away - there were two - a small 12 motif darning
sampler about 14" X 12", done in silk threads on linen, not signed or dated,
with some condition issues from having been folded. The other one - WOW!! It was
14.5" wide and 35.5" long. Again silk threads on linen, several pulled thread
and drawn thread bands, a partial alphabet, a name, and some other words, then
more bands - satin stitched motifs, pulled thread and drawn thread. I was
thrilled. I took it to our Guild meeting that week in hopes that someone could
tell me more about it. One of our members took one look at it and said - That's
a Portuguese Sampler! She is of Portuguese descent, and a textile appraiser. She
said the name on the sampler was Portuguese, and that the sampler was probably
done before 1850, because of the dyes used for the threads, and was probably
done in Europe since the Portuguese who immigrated to North America weren't
generally of the class that had the time and money to do such a large sampler.
I currently have the two samplers at my framer's, having them
reframed and will pick them up soon. I will send pictures when I get them and
maybe one of your readers and tell me more.
From: Janet
jbstitcher@comcast.net
Each year The Mayflower Sampler Guild produces an
ornament kit that is to be sold for the purpose of raising funds to be donated
for the conservation of an antique sampler. This years ornament was designed by
a Guild member, Carli DeFillo. The title of the ornament is I Saw Three Ships.
The kit contains linen, Anchor Floss 9046, pattern, and instructions for
finishing. Each of the three sides has a sailing ship and reads "I saw three
ships", the second side "come sailing in", the third side "on Christmas day" and
the small ball hanging from the ornament reads on one side "in the" and on the
opposite side "morning". I chose to do my ornament in green
silk from my stash rather than the bright red that is in the kit.
Anyone interested in make this ornament and supporting the
Guilds efforts may do so by mailing a request to Lynn Mansmann 34 Cherry St.
Danvers, MA 01923. The cost of the kit is $10.00 and a postage fee of $1.00. It
truly is adorable, and I can't wait to see it hanging from my Christmas tree in
December. Happy stitching all.
From: Denise
Denise.DeMore@omego.com