A piece of my sampler
Ritva and Miriam had the
same theme for the fabric book page swap at Fibre Fever. Their theme was
traditional craft, which made me think about the
samplers little girls had to stitch. I visited an exhibition with lots of these
old samplers back in the 80’s. The book with samplers I bought then and the
borders for Randje per week were the inspiration for these samplers. The
scissor came from a sampler dated 1734, the butterfly was on a sampler dated
1873.
The samplers look realy nice! I love the 'classic' birds!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenDank je wel, Marjolein. Volgens mij kwamen die pauwen uit een oude Libelle special.
Verwijderenhow they sittched so perfect;y when they had such poor lighting and were usually done by very young girls, old samplers are wonderful to see
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYes, these girls made beautiful samplers!
VerwijderenThe old samplers are little treasures!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYes, they are. And it was fun to use some patterns in my samplers.
Verwijderenlovely samplers.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThanks, Chitra. It was fun to design and stitch.
VerwijderenThese samplers are amazing, such a lot of work! I have been meaning to stitch something with scissors as the main subject for my blog header but can't quite decide the best way yet! Barbara xx
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThanks, Barbara. I have a similar problem with my blog header, I cannot decide about the design I want to stitch.
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