Mercy's Garden scottish sampler four-sided stitch

four-sided stitch

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It is a call back to the second verse of Angels We Have Heard on High

This pattern is full of some of my favorite bits of autumn: mushrooms and acorns

Mercy's Garden scottish sampler four-sided stitchThis little sampler was inspired by a 220 year old large sampler in our collection that was stitched by Mercy Stainton and is lled with garden motifstrees, owers, birds, beehives, and animals of all kinds. Mercy used a variety of stitches in her sampler and we have tried to sprinkle those throughout this adaptation. The model is stitched on 40 count Maple Bar linen by Cedar River Linen using the called for over dyed threads. We finished the model as a