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DeLand plus Shop Hop Lake Mary, Orange City

February 28, 2015

951 N Volusia Ave, Orange City FL 32763 / 386-218-6820

Follow the road (I-4) to Exit 114. We are just 3 miles west on US 17/92 South.

Join us at the

Florida Breeze Shop Hop

Jan 14 - 19

3000 Bolts, Books, Patterns, Classes, Lots of Notions &

Exclusive Gift Items

115 W. Rich Ave., DeLand, FL 32720 386-734-8782 • quiltshopofdeland@hotmail.comShop online too! www.quiltshopofdeland.com

Your Quilt Shop for fabrics, kits, BOMs, classes & more! Watch Judy on Fons & Porter TV and

visit www.quiltshopofdeland.com for tutorials and shopping!

Open Mon-Sat from 10 to 5

Join our6 month BOM!

Details on website!

Florida Breeze Shop Hop • Jan 14th - 19th

Binding, Chenilling, free motion quilting,petal flowers, Downton Abbey purse and more!

Watch for Judy on the Love of Quilting,

Fons & Porter Program!

Visit www.craftdaily.com to view Judy’s 9 teaching videos!

Shop Hop with us during the

Magrieta’s Quilt Shop 142C King Street St. Augustine, FL

904-829- 3137

Quilt Shop of Deland 115 W Rich Ave

DeLand FL 386-734-8782

Cinnamon’s Quilt Shoppe 4220 Hood Rd

Jacksonville, FL 904-374-0532

Calico Station 1857 Wells Rd

Orange Park, FL 904-269-6911

Store Hours: 9am till 5:30pm

(except Sun.) Sun. 12pm-4pm

6 Days… 6 Shops

The Sewing Garret 949 Beville Rd, Bldg B

Daytona Beach 386-767-3545

Wednesday - Monday

Grand Prize *A Bernina 215

*A Tutto Luggage Case

*A Horn Cabinet,

*Maderia Threads,

$100 in Gift Certificates

(One from each Shop)

Accent on Quilting 951 N Volusia Ave #200

Orange City FL 386-218-6820

Sixth Annual Florida Breeze Shop Hop

January 14-19, 2015

Countryberries LLC

Whimsies and necessaries for your country home and garden

330 North Road Deerfield, NH 03037603-463-7615 www.countryberries.com

email us at info@countryberries.com to get on our email list

Designed by Kathy Graham

Countryberries Designs

Wool Applique Snowman

This pattern is free for you to use. Please give the artist credit. Not for commercial use. Enlarge this pattern to your de-sired size. This pattern was designed as a wool applique with embroi-dered details. It can also be painted, embroi-dered, needlepunched or hooked.Have fun!

Samplers have long been treasured in the United States as wonderful examples of a time when accomplished needlework was part of becoming a young woman.

Most in this country were the work of five to 15 year old girls, but in Europe such projects could literally be fit for a queen.

Historical account books for Queen Elizabeth of York show a sum was paid in 1502 to Thomas Fisshe for “an elne of lynnyn cloth for a sampler for the Queen.”

Samplers were topical too for William Shakespeare. In Midsummer Night’s Dream, a line from Helena recounts “our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion...”

Early European samplers were usually no more than a single piece of cloth upon which young women applied designs for future reference. As striking as they might have been, most appeared without names and with-out dates.

For the most part the sampler came to Colonial America directly from England where it had long been popu-lar, but they were also being crafted in other European countries at the time including France and Germany.

Named from the Latin word exem-plar meaning model for imitation, samplers in this country were indeed a teaching tool for generations.

“Samplers were at first simply records,” explains Barbara Ohrbach author of Antiques At Home, “ a sam-pling of the many stitches, some quite complex, and techniques that could be used in embroidery. They were also a young girl’s first introduction to needlework.”

That introduction traditionally took the student from needlework basics to the elaborate marking of liens in her own household. Early in the 17th century samplers began to have more personal details such as the name of the maker and the date on which it was completed. More and more they were designed to demonstrate the maker’s ability with a needle.

“They were originally intended to serve as a reference book of stitches and designs, or as examples of the needlewoman’s skills,” notes Gail Andrews Trechsel in an essay for Southern Folk Art, a guide to the Phillip Morris exhibition.

But “with their variety, intricate stitches, and often humorous or senti-mental verses, samplers rank among America’s most outstanding textile achievements.”

The simple sampler of a few letters of the alphabet and cross-stitching gradually evolved into more elaborate designs that could include the name and birth date of the maker, inspirational sayings, embroidered borders, and even pictorial designs.

While the overall design seemed simple, they were actually sometimes demanding learning tools for young girls.

“Poor little kiddies,” wrote Sarah Lockwood in the 1926 volume An-tiques, “how they must have slaved over them, driven on by the same odd pride that made their mothers let them do it. Some of these samplers were marvelous, but I confess that it makes me quite sad to look at them, until I

Those Wonderful Samplersby ACNS with Robert Reed

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Cotton sampler, New England, ca. 1830-40 (Shelburne Museum photo)

I hand quilt the quilts that I make. When almost finished, I always quilt a “message” somewhere near the border, in the corner or in a space that I’ve left “unquilted”. The message usually is meant for whomever the quilt will be given. For instance, a quilt that I made for my daughter had, “I love you, Lindsey”, and another that I made for my dad said, “Happy 80th Birthday, Dad”.

I love to autograph quilts. When our pastor was leaving and I didn’t have enough time to make a large quilt for him, I made a wall hanging as a go-ing away gift from the congregation. I made a large label for the back for the quilt and had each person in the congregation sign it. Some people just signed their names, children wrote theirs too, and some people wrote short messages. I sewed the label to the back of the quilt and it was presented to the pastor at his final worship service with us. (I also wrote the name of our church, city & state, the title of the “Event” – Pastors Farewell Service and the date.) He loved it!

Purchase the best backing you can afford. It will make your quilting easier when using that high quality backing fabric.

By reader M Wright of Trenton, FL

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