Welcome Baby Norah

August 7, 2016, 5:41 pm
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Our beautiful grandniece, Norah, was born back in April. So, I designed this sampler piece to commemorate her birth. She’s Irish & so, her name is spelled out in green with touches of the colors of the rainbow & a pot of gold in the letter H. We wish her good health, happiness, & good fortune throughout her life.

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The letters came from either the Leisure Arts Leaflet 2285 called 120 Alphabets or Leisure Arts Leaflet 3071 called Alphabets Galore 136 Alphabets.

From top to bottom:

Blocks (3 rows from A-Z): Diagram 88 on pg 32 (136 Alphabets)
Welcome baby with balloons: Diagram 113 on pgs 39-40 (136 Alphabets)
Norah (modified to fit my width): Diagram 73 on pg 26 (120 Alphabets)
Diaper pins (without the letters): Diagram 49 on pg 14 (120 Alphabets)
April: Diagram 19 on pg 7 (136 Alphabets)
lower case pm, lbs, and oz: Diagram 53 on pg 15 (120 Alphabets)

There are mainly DMC flosses used: yellow 444, green 701 and 700 a little darker for Norah, blue 825, violet 552, red 666, red-violet 915 because red 666 looked terrible right next to violet 552, orange 970, and black 310 for the balloon strings. I also used Kreinik #12 braid 010HL for the pot, #8 braid 002J for the gold, and #12 braid 001 for the metal portion of the diaper pins (thanks to Linda – I had #16 which was too thick while my #8, #4, and balger were too thin).

I am amazed that I used graph paper, pencil, & plenty of erasing to lay this out but 100 years ago young girls stitched samplers without such aids!!

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What a lovely piece for a beautiful baby, Melita! It is amazing how we carefully chart everything now on graph paper and they accomplished a visually attractive sampler all on their own.
Sue

Comment by suesci August 7, 2016 @ 6:24 pm