Flosstube and Variety Show #106

Flosstube = cross stitch; Variety Show can be anything, and sometimes many things all at once!

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Special intro and outro music: “Leaning On the Everlasting Arms” - 19th century hymn - excerpts from an arrangement by Byron Williams (my husband) 

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Today I mentioned:

Cross stitch:

A Robson 1897 - sampler and Great British Sampler Weekend mattress cushion - 36-count Woodsmoke by Tabby Cat Linen, Some D’Alger threads #1834 and #4624.

Hannah Campbell 1838 - Hands Across the Sea Samplers - called-for Soie d’Alger and Soie 100.3 by Au Ver a Sole; Ballet Slippers 36-count by Fox and Rabbit.

“Lost” Mrs Salmond 1897 - Hands Across the Sea - from the Words of Wisdom box - 46-count Latte and 100.3 #016

Jane Boyer 1834 - charted from an antique sampler held in the collection of The LeRoy House, LeRoy, NY. 40-count Vintage Country Mocha, DMC threads (with something else for over-one sections)

Bethlehem - design by Diane Arthurs, Imaginating 1839 - 32-count blue Lugana with DMC 3799, 1 over 2  #nativitysal

Variety Show

Creative use of calligraphy as ideas for the use of alphabets in contemporary “samplers”:
Wind Songs
Doorposts
Proverbs 
    All by Timothy Botts

Classics that our book club has read:
 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
 Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
 Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
 My Antionia by Willa Cather
 Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton