Picked out my pattern

Okay, I feel a little bit less stressed Marie!! I have picked out the pattern I want to stitch for you, based on your tastes.
I can't beleive that Marie and I have pretty much identical tastes, good huswife, carriage house samplings, etc!! So this is easy, finding something in my stash for stitching. I have the floss and pattern, the linen is going to get serged sometime today or tomorrow. I am excited to get this going.
The unfortunate part is that I have to go to work now.....

Karen

Yes...Marie is correct!! She is WAAAAY ahead!

Aren't they beautiful!!!!!!!!! I received them Friday, but they got "lost" until yesterday when I finally opened them! She went them with a lovely postcard from Vermont, where she doesn't realize we used to live! Anywho, I am feeling rather behind now, as I haven't decided what I am even stitching yet!! Story of my life....so Marie, be patient, you won't be recieving your squares this week!! LOL!!!

Thanks so much, they are lovely! And if you can't see in the pictures, she did her name one over one!! I am impressed....so impressed.

Karen

Round # 2 Block sent

I am so ahead of the game! I completed Round #2 block and mailed it out today.
Guess you could say that I am ready for Round #3 :-).

Deb's blocks!!! :-)

This is my square from Lavender Rose (Deb)! Isn't it lovely!! I haven't been able to post a picture as my "dear" daughter broke my camera right after vacation. I just recieved the new one yesterday, so whatever blurriness is operator error!! LOL!




She even sent me a lovely swatch of red silk to help with finishing. Yikes! I better get to work!!


THANK YOU Deb!! They are wonderful.

Karen's Squares to Me!

I apologize to Karen for my wretched camera work. But, here are the sweetest squares she made for me! The color she used is really a medium pink and it's perfect. I think she used silk because the sheen is lovely. I also loved the threads she sent along for fun.

Karen, thank you so much for the time you spent making the quaker piece for me. You're the first square in my quilt-to-be!!

Love and hugs, Deb in FL

Blocks received!!!

Thank you Deb! The blocks are beautiful! I was away last week and have just gotten all the mail sorted. I will take a picture tonight to add, but for now, need to run to work! Deb was so nice to include a piece of red silk to help in the finishing process. Off to work and I will get a picture up tonight!

Karen

Off to Old Cape Cod

I will be off on vacation...but will be checking in as feasible. Left you with a couple of images ...enjoy!

Take two...

Vonna,
I guess I forgot to sign up for the next swap. I really had fun thinking up something to stitch for Deb.( Hope she likes it!)
Everyone's things have just been lovely.
Karen

Mailed Today!

Happily reporting that Karen's blocks were mailed today!! I hope she likes her Quaker inspired pieces. Karen loves all things Quaker, and she's making a quilt, I believe. So, off my stitching part went to her.

Please sign me up with my 2nd partner, Headmistresses!!

Love and hugs!

Deb/LavenderRose

Finished...and headed south

I have finished and the block will be headed south to Lavender Rose on Monday! I have had a rough couple of weeks...lots of migraines and a health scare of my dad's. Haven't been here much, but have enjoyed this.

Hope you like what I stitched, Deb and hope it goes with your fabric!

Karen

Karen's Is Stitched!!

I put the final stitches into Karen's Fair & Square pieces tonight, and can't wait to get them mailed to her!

I have to admit I worried a little bit about our Schoolmarms, Mistresses Vonna and An, instructing us "do not be a stitch over 50 one way or another!!" I'm afraid I've broken that cardinal rule already!! GASP!! If they were near me, I have no doubts they would smack my stitching hand with a ruler!! Thanks be to God, I cower away now, safe in my little closet.

Oh, how I counted. Let me assure you I did. But I couldn't resist one tiny extra little stitch. So, if nobody counts, maybe they won't detect my l tiny, bitty stitch too many on the left side. :[ It was a do-or-die stitch!!!

This yellow rose above is my humble token as a way of asking forgiveness, and in hopes that I may continue to stitch with the Fair & Squares. 'though, I suppose it could be said of a wretch like me that I'm not completely fair or square...:((

Love and hugs,

Deb/Lavender Rose

PS: Squares happily coming to your house soon, Karen!!! :))

Faith, Hope and Charity

I have no affilitation with this except to pass the word around. This was announced on board to which I belong. Enjoy the sampler if nothing else!



"Martina Dey of Wiehenburg Samplers has graciously designed a quaker sampler for my EGA group, Bay Area (TX) Renaissance Stitchers, to be used as a community outreach project for our chapter. She was gracious to donate the chart as was Vikki who donated the silks for the model to be stitched as well as a silk pack to be given as a gift when the chart debuted at the South Central Region's EGA seminar last evening. This project has been weeks in the making and we are really proud of it. The model was stitched on 30ct. Legacy coconut macaroon with Vikki Clayton's premium silks. The stitch count is 250w x 250h. The price of the chart is $10 (pdf. file) or $12 if mailed. To purchase the chart, please contact BARSofTEXAS@AOL.com Please send your ordering information to the email addy provided before sending your money. We are receiving payments for charts and don't know where to send them.Thanks!!!! (The charity is the March of Dimes)

Here is a photo of the stitched model which was personalized by our model stitcher. "

Ramblings...

Hello everyone,
Trying to catch up on all the posts. We had a terrible thunderstorm yesterday around 3:00 and we lost power, phone, internet, water and a couple of massive maple trees. I couldn't get home ; my lane was covered by a telephone pole that came crashing on a maple and wires and wood were everywhere. I had to drive my corolla in the field! It's been a day; lots a chain saws everywhere.
I guess I am supposed to tell you what I like. Well...my name is samplerknn, so that is the first hint! I love all things samplers, especially reproduction and quaker. Love just about all colors except too bright. Will be happy with anything though, as I truly appreciate anything "hand did". (That from a sales clerk at Neiman Marcus in Dallas..long story!) I quilt, stitch and rug hook so I really love it all!
I think this is going to be fun. I plan to do smalls with mine, but who knows? I have been known to fondle a stitched peice for weeks before I frame it!
I hope everyone is stitching more than I.
Karen in Maryland

And she's off..

Since I am probably the only one of us you don't know, i will first introduce myself.
I am a 51 year "young" mom, wife, and speech language pathologist. I am a quilter, stitcher and reader. I am passionate about samplers; I don't stitch anything "cutesy" or pictoral. Just samplers. And mostly quaker. In the last five years, I have done very little stitching as the eyes make it very hard. I used to stitch on 32 and up but, these days, 28ct can be tolerated quite well. (I can't do 36 at all anymore....) I have about 1000 WIPs...ok..I stretch the truth, which is closer to 50...but dang....those ziplock baggies seem to muliply! All samplers. I have another 100+ charts that I will not get around to stitching if I live to be 600. I may take the advise of another older stitcher. She has resorted to framing the charts!
I am excited about this swap. I haven't swapped stitching before, but have been quite active swapping quilt blocks for the past couple of years. Since I now have more quilts than I could ever use, it's back to stitching.
I have been searching for a pattern; almost had it last night but wouldn't you know...it was 56 stitches high. So, it is back to the drawing board tonight. I will be using silks and antique white to stitch it, whatever IT is!
In these, do you post what colors etc you are drawn to, etc. I just am a rookie...please be gentle.

Karen in MD (samplerknn)