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Valentine Giveaway
Dawn has very kindly sponsored a draw prize for Valentine's Day - a beautiful book "The Ornamental Branches"To qualify for the draw please post progress photos of your current Scarlet Letter Sampler on...
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A New Start for a New Year
I received the kit for Elizabeth Shephard as a Christmas present from a dear friend this year. Â I do love Quaker designs and this has been a popular sampler in the group.I am stitching her using the...
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Mastering Mary
Mary Hurst stitched by ChristyWe have been seeing lots of beautiful starts, this is Christy's.There has been much discussion within the Facebook Group this week about eyelets and I have re-visited them...
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Beyond the Little X - An Interview with Melinda of Merry Wind Farm!
Happy New Year! For our first interview of the year we visit with Melinda from Merry Wind Farm! Some of you may be familiar with Melinda from her blog where she shares her stitching and rug hooking...
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Mastering Mary
Checking in with everyone for  another "Mary Monday".This week's "Mary Hurst" has been stitched by Karen and her stitching is exquisite. Congratulations Karen.A third file has been opened covering...
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Dona Dorothea
Good Evening Everyone,Not as much progress as I had hoped for on Dona Dorothea. Poor thing – she has been neglected while I worked some on Mary Hurst. But, I decided the weekend was Dona’s. However,...
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MASTERING MARY
Section 1 - Mary Hurst 1661For those of us who are stitching Mary Hurst I thought that I would post some information on thread usage.If you are using a padding stitch and two passes of satin stitch...
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A World-Wide Community!
Over on Our Scarlet Letter Years Facebook group we are learning about where we all are in the world! And so to better visualize this I created a World Map with pin locators for all our members who wish...
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Mastering Mary
We are seeing lots of Mary's being started and great progress is being made.Section 2 is a little way off but it might be worth starting to give this area some thought.Do you want to stitch it as Mary...
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Mastering Mary
Congratulations to Betty who has completed Section 1.I was reading in the Goodhart Samplers book on page 94 that the author has wondered if samplers could be purchased partly worked during the 17th...
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Confessions and an Update
Good Evening!How is everyone? I live in Eastern PA and today it was warm enough that my husband grilled dinner for us. Tomorrow – who knows? Another storm is forecast…some say just rain…others say...
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Mastering Mary
This is the sixth Monday since we started Mary and we are seeing some wonderful stitching. I think we should give ourselves a round of applause.We have all had challenges with Miss Hurst, the alphabet...
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Mastering Mary
The files have been updated to include my stitching notes up to and including this section.Detached buttonhole filling, queen and Croatian flat stitch have now made an appearance.
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Three Valentine Day Giveaways - a book, three charts and two silk kitsof an...
Tomorrow we will be drawing Dawn's prize for the beautiful book Ornamental Branches for blog members only so to qualify please make sure you post your current progress today if you have not already...
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Mastering Mary
Mary Hurst - Band 6We now have a separate page shown in the tabs above for our Group Learning project - Mastering Mary.The files will be regularly updated as the project progresses.We are now on Band 6.
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Mastering Mary - Mary Monday
Mary Hurst stitched by BettyIt is time for another Mary Monday and to touch base with our group learning project "Mastering Mary".It has been wonderful to see so many starts, all have been beautiful...
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Beyond the Little X - An Interview with Ilana!
For our February interview we sit and stitch with Ilana! She shares with us her stitching story and many of her beautiful samplers, including many Scarlet Letter samplers! Lots of eye candy for the...
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The Valentine's Day Giveaway ...... The winner is ..........
I am very pleased to announce that the name drawn from the hat for The Ornamental Branches book sponsored by Dawn is Theresa for her post on January 16.Congratulations Theresa, please can you forward...
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Mastering Mary
Christy has finished the whitework section and has stitched all of the eyelets - doesn't it look pretty ?I have now stitched to this point and have updated the files with my notes.
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Progress on Elizabeth Shephard
Happy Birthday Nicola!As it was Nicola's Birthday this week I decided to dedicate IHSW to the gift she gave me for Christmas - Elizabeth Shephard.I started on Thursday and completed the central...
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