A finish is in sight!

I've really enjoyed

 reproducing and stitching

 the J.M. Gardner- 1888 sampler.

 I'm rounding third base

and on my way home

 with this piece...

just a few more posies

 to stitch in the border!

A finish is in sight!

 

She is such a sweet little sampler,

just 7" square!

Small in size,

but fully filled

with some of my favorite motifs...

Last evening I finished up the fruit basket.

I like J.M. Gardner's version of this motif...

a more long and stretched out version.

 

A fruit basket that symbolizes

love & fertility, and a

 couple of crowns  for

eternity

&

fidelity.

 

The sampler also has a lovely little brick house.  

Often times,

 this motif was a representation of the girls

house

or

 perhaps the school

 in which she learned to stitch.

 

After stitching so many apples...

dark red ones,

light red ones,

green ones

&

yellow ones...

I was craving an apple.

A carameled apple,

to be exact!

mmmmmmm

Doesn't that sound good?

 

It's that time of year!

I hear the local apples are ready. 

Time for apple dumplings and carmeled apples...

Pumpkins and mumms

 greeted me at the grocery store yesterday!

 

Can it be?

I'm asking myself,

where did the summer go? 

 

And lastly,

only because I know someones

going to want to know/ask...

An estimated release date for the
J.M. Gardner - 1888

chart will be sometime in September.

 

With thy Needle & Thread,
Brenda