Saturday Sampler News!

It's Saturday night, and I just got a wonderful e-mail from Jill Renseler.  She's finished framing my Belles-Lettres D by Gigi R and will be sending it home on Monday.  Here's the photo she sent:

Gigi R's Belles-Lettres D framed by Jill Rensel

I've also decided to join Nicola's Scarlet Letter Year Challenge.  Nicola turns 50 this month and has decided to celebrate by stitching a series of Scarlet Letter reproduction samplers over the next year and inviting other stitchers to join the challenge.  She's gotten great response to this, and has many small challenges and prizes going on.  I've chosen SDW, A German Band Sampler circa 1710 as the piece I'll stitch for this challenge.  I still have to order the chart, fabrics, and threads, but this is the one I've chosen:

SDW A German Band Sampler circa 1710 by The Scarlet Letter

This sampler will make a wonderful companion piece to And They Sinned, the sampler I'll be starting as soon as my Lakeside Linen fabric comes in.  There's been a delay due to illness in the family of the ladies who own LL, but hopefully it will be in soon.  Both SDW and ATS are about 45" tall, with SDW being just a bit wider than ATS.  I'd love to have both of them on my wall!

And They Sinned by Examplar Dames Design Co.

Sunday Update January 20, 2013

It's been a busy week at work, but I managed to get a bit of stitching done on HAED's Angel with Iris this week.  What I'm excited about is finally getting started on Wisteria by The Silver Lining.  The chart was gifted to me at the end of November by Mary in the OneOverOners Yahoo Group.  I had intended to start it in December, but I ended up concentrating and finishing Gigi R's Belles-Lettres D.

I'm stitching Wisteria on 28 count black Jobelan, stitched one over one full cross.  I do like stitching on black, and I can tell I'm really going to enjoy stitching this design.   Here's a picture of the two leaves I've stitched this weekend, which happened to be International Hermit and Stitch Weekend:

Wisteria by The Silver Lining

My other major news is that my sampler, Belles-Lettres D by Gigi R, is now at Jill Rensel's studio, and we've agreed on how it's to be framed.  She'd suggested stacked frames with a fillet, and I loved the effect using a dark carved outer frame, a green gold inner frame, and a dark fillet.  She's going to try to get it back to me in time for our next anniversary on February 12th.  Here's a picture of the looke we chose:

Gigi R's Belles-Lettres D with framing sample from Jill Rensel