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The Sampler Game Answer Key
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Comments (7) It’s time to reveal the answer key for my Sampler Game. One last time, here’s the pic:
. . . and the list below has the answers (numbering samplers from left to right). If I’ve already posted about the finish, I’ve added a link to the entry. If not, well, I guess I have some fodder for future posts!
NOTE: Some of my older posts have tiny pictures. To see a larger image, simply click the photos.
1. Prairie Schooler, “Johnny Appleseed”
Recognized by Karen; most recently mentioned here.
2. Drawn Thread, “Random Thoughts”
Recognized by Karen; no blog entry yet.
Actually, this one is a finish wannabe. It should have been in the WIP pile.
3. Prairie Schooler, “Autumn Sampler”
Recognized by Glenna; post found here.
4. Blackbird Designs, “Live Each Season”
Recognized by Brigitte; no blog entry yet.
5. Hands to Work, “Patience 1898”
Featured here.
6. Birds of a Feather, “Alphabet Sampler”
Featured here.
7. Birds of a Feather, “Sarah Spencer Sampler”
Featured in my very first post, found here.
8. La-D-Da, “Bless This House”
Featured here.
9. Cricket Collection, “A Walk in the Woods”
Recognized by Barb and Janice; featured here.
10. Birds of a Feather, “Happy Hearts Sampler”
Recognized by Karen; featured here.
11. Brightneedle, “Lo, How a Rose”
Recognized by Karen; featured here.
12. Sheepish Designs, “Those Blooming Flowers”
Featured here.
13. With My Needle, “Quaker Samplings I”
Recognized by Karen; featured here.
14. Prairie Schooler, Book 76, “Farmer’s Alphabet”
Featured here.
15. Little House Needleworks, “Moon and Stars”
Featured here.
16. Bent Creek, “Flag 1998”
No blog entry yet.
17. (folded) The Examplarery, “Tudor Rose”
No blog entry yet.
Thanks to everyone who played along. And thanks, too, for motivating me to do some finishing. I promise to keep chipping away at these until they’re all done!!
Flashback Friday . . . again!
By popular demand (well, one person kind of mentioned today’s project in passing), I’m featuring a project that I completed last fall.
(click to enlarge the photo)
Designer: Brightneedle
Pattern: Lo, How a Rose
Found in a book published by Better Homes and Gardens titled
A Cross-Stitch Christmas: Celebrations in Stitches (copyright 2001).
Stitched on 32-count off-white linen using two strands of floss over two threads,
with quite a few color changes.
Although I didn’t know it at the time, this project turned into a lesson of The Floss Colors in the Photo May Be Different Than What They Appear.
I decided to stitch this piece because I was drawn to the seemingly faded pinks and green in the model photo, which made this look like an antique sampler. So I purchased the recommended overdyed flosses and set to work . . . only to find that none of them seem to match the look of the photo. Instead of being faded, these floss colors (at least, in my dye lot) were quite bright and strong. Ah, I thought, the model must have used DMC floss.
So the next day, I trekked out to purchase the recommended DMC colors and set to work again . . . only to find that those colors didn’t match the photo either! Hmmmm.
Upon studying the photo more closely, I decided that the soft lighting used to create such a pretty photo had tricked me into perceiving a different color scheme. Unfortunately, that was the color scheme that had convinced me to stitch the piece in the first place.
After giving it much thought, I decided to try and match the faded look of the photo, so I took a great leap of faith and began rearranging colors . . . and rearranging . . . and rearranging some more. I think, in all, I must have stitched this piece two times over, given all the test colors I tried and then tore out again.
In the end, I used a combination of some recommended DMC colors, some recommended overdyed flosses, and some skeins of non-recommended DMC and overdyeds that just seem to fit the piece. Now that the dust has settled and I’ve had some time away from the finished project (and time to forget all that frogging!), I’m happy to say I’m pleased with the balance between faded and brighter colors, and I think it’s a reasonably close match to the photo.
