Birth Sampler

Happy Friday, Friends. I hope you have had a good week. Friday always comes a little too soon for me, but I am happy I got quite a bit accomplished this week.

The last time I shared with you on my progress on Miss Baby’s birth sampler was Fall last year…

I spent the first three months this year completing the next motif on the sampler. And here is the latest progress picture.

Miss Baby’s birth sampler is one thing I would like to finish stitching this year. So, anytime I can add a few more stitches to the sampler is time well spent.

Speaking of the little Miss, she delivered to me a note she wrote all by herself without assistance… I am SO going to frame this for the future! :) I thought the note would give you a chuckle or two too.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a most blessed weekend! God’s blessings to you.

Good day, my Friends! There’s really nothing much to see here — but I thought I would show you my turtle-paced progress on my Quaker samplers.

Completed Mary Wigham

Here is a quick peek on my Mary Wigham. Stitching the white on the lambswool linen was quite challenging in that it was hard to see the white against the light background. But I love the lacy effect!

Now, as if I need yet another work in progress (right!)… I am showing a teeny bit of progress on Baby’s birth sampler. A dear friend (for whom Baby’s middle name is named) had bought the sampler chart for Baby’s birthday. I want to get started on the sampler right away so that I can show this dear lady the progress of Baby’s sampler chart whenever we visit her… the colors are inspired by Baby’s Birthplate/Porringer:

I have been doing some research on the meaning of sampler motifs. I am keeping a log to document the meanings of the different motifs stitched in this sampler so that I can use the meanings of the motifs to pray for Baby. Baby will eventually be gifted with the sampler and the journal.

I found out that tulips in samplers mean “perfect love”. I am praying that baby would grow up knowing that she is loved, and that she would know the Perfect Love and the source thereof. Now, I can’t quite figure out what that orange-y peach flower is. I am wondering if any of you might have an idea so that I can attempt to find the significance associated to that motif.

Those who are regulars here know that garment construction and I are like oil and water!!! Putting Baby’s dresses together inevitably turns into a saga, almost every time… I messed up on the armholes on the back skirt – that’s after I painstaking put in the placket and gathered one half of the skirt that I realized the armholes were wrongly drawn and cut. *sigh* So, I am taking stitches out and starting again!

Other than that, my Summer Solstice quilt is all put together. I am hoping to get started on quilting it within the next day or two (after I successfully put that Easter dress together, of course! HAHAHAHA!).