Flosstube: Ornamentations #44 - Spring stitches, a spring kit, and a big start

Ornamentations (noun): 2. That in which the process of ornamenting is embodied; the ornaments which adorn a thing collectively; ornament in general
Or, in music, the grace notes that embellish a melodic line.

Edit 3/28: Tulip Festival is now completely sold out, thank you!
Due to limited thread availability there will not be a restock or preorder on Tulip Festival.

Spring smalls shown:
Tulip Festival by Brenda Gervais
The Rabbit & the Rose by Brenda Gervais
Seasons of the Heart: Spring by Brenda Gervais - you can find my conversion in episode 21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3JAkZDjygo&t=775s
Harietta & Co by Brenda Gervais - not shown, but you can see it and find my conversion in episode 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsX5Z6lGLk8&t=1s
My Early Days, Plum Street Samplers - my conversion (in Surfine or 100/3) is in episode 32: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_5BDPwT54

My stitched version of Botticelli's Birth of Venus was inspired by the Olympia Le Tan embroidered clutch: https://www.matchesfashion.com/us/products/1511534?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=1511534000001&utm_term=2069443392192&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2v-gBhC1ARIsAOQdKY1a0t2L3FXDTwrCetC6mu861HtITLW74PWmqFjlTsX6kZwU_6fAklIaAkBWEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Jackie du Plessis makes beautiful mother of pearl stitching accessories - I showed her tulip pinkeep kit today - and you can purchase them by emailing her: jackie@itsfineallyfinished.com

Modern Folk Embroidery Home Sweet Home, stitched with Gobelins 575 on 37 count Legacy Linen Russian Tea Cake

Plum Street Samplers This Happy Morning, on Legacy Linen 38 count Fuller's Teazel
Jacob of Modern Folk Embroidery had a really interesting discussion of the difficulties of charting all the ways girls corrected mistakes on their samplers in his last flosstube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcrbIIv0X0A

My power bank is by Anker, who make several models ranging from small ones to put in your purse and charge your phone on the go, to bigger models meant to fully charge multiple devices.  I bought the latter kind, the 537 Power Bank, on Amazon, with a wall outlet charger as well.  Perfect for a retreat charging setup.

There is a full recap of the finished and mounted Britomart casket panels in episode 39 if you're new to my channel and the Britomart casket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGJmuvFo8g
And the Witney Antiques catalog I showed is called A Golden Age: Rare and Historic Embroideries From the 16th & 17th Centuries
As always, I highly recommend Thistle Threads' casket courses.  Cabinet of Curiosities Part I (history and making of casket) and Part II (stumpwork) are currently running and open for registration: https://thistle-threads.myshopify.com/collections/online-university
It's the stitching journey of a lifetime.