All Day Stitch-in

Saturday we had our guild's first all day stitch-in of the year.  We started out with a bang!  We had Darlene Anderson come as a guest lecturer.  Oh my what a great talk it was too.  Darlene is a sampler historian whose area of study is Adam and Eve samplers.  She also brought her sampler ornaments to share with us.

She shared slides of all the Adam and Eve samplers she's stitched with most of them being reproductions.  There were over 50 different examples shown!  She gave us a handout with all of them listed by name and designer.  Needless to say the "to stitch" list got longer...again!

She also brought with her some of her sampler ornaments she made to decorate her Christmas tree.  Let me just say, they were amazing!  They covered two six foot tables full!  I purposely left the pictures sized larger than I usually do so they should be clickable to make them bigger!

 

 

 

 

 

She said she gets a lot of her charts from links on Freebie Gallery and The World's Largest Collection of Smalls.  She said several of them were by Threads Through Time too.  Here are some of my favorites.

 

I wish I knew who designed this one.  I'd love to stitch it.

**Edited** My buddy, Paula tells me this is an Eileen Bennett.  Thanks, Paula!

This one was from one of the JCS Ornament issues.  I have stitched this one but it's not finish finished.  I love how she changed the colors.

This one is called Crowning Glory by Homepsun Elegance.  Thanks Robin for letting me know!

I think she said this one came from JCS too.

This one is a Threads Through Time.

 

The thing I found interesting was that most of the ornaments were stitched over one to make them small enough for ornaments.  I hadn't thought to do that.  I may have to give that idea a go.

 

Darlene also brought stitched door prizes!  What generous door prizes they were too.  Inside each one were thread rings and matching scissors.  My friend Ann Marie won this one.  She's a lucky girl!

There were some who won that had already left before we thought to get pictures.  Here are the other ones.

 

 

I know, crazy generous...right?!  Wow!  It was a treat just to get to see them all.

 

Speaking of treats, Christy Y. finished her Immigrant Sampler by Lucy Lyons Willis of La Chatelaine Designs.  I wish you could see the drawn thread work on the flag!  It's amazing.  Congrats, Christy!

 

Just look at this beautiful white work sampler.

 

I love this stitched pocketbook!  One of my regular readers finished this one.  I keep telling her she needs to leave me a comment sometime...you know who you are!  LOL!

I decided to go stash diving when I saw that the program was on A & E samplers.  I knew I had one from way back.  I'm talking before linen and still using Aida days.  I remember when I bought this one thinking that someday I'd stitch it on linen.  I am happy to say that now is that day!

This is Sara Seifer from The Goode Huswife.  I'm using a darker linen than called for so I had to change the floss color for the people.  I think the substitution worked out pretty well.  This is my progress from the weekend.  I'm enjoying it so far.  I've always had this idea I'd have an A & E wall at some point.  This is my start!

If you want to read more about the stitch-in, my buddies Marsha and Ellen both have posts on their blogs about it.  Special thanks go to my buddies Paula W., Janis and Diane for the legwork to get Darlene's visit all set and for making the day a wonderful fun filled day!

Well folks, it was a long one and I'm glad you stuck with me to the end.  I hope you enjoyed seeing all the lovely things I got to see on Saturday.  I really am fortunate to belong to such a talented group of stitchers.  It was a great day indeed.  I hope you are having a good one too!  Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time,

The Inspired Stitcher