Flosstube and Variety Show #192

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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”, excerpts from an arrangement by Byron Williams (my husband)

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Today I mentioned:

Cross stitch:

Jane Thompson 1838 - The Scarlett House - exclusive through Homespun Needlework Facebook group from The Shepherd’s Needle. 36-count Sleeping Bear (Needle and Flax), called-for NPI silk. (Now generally available)

National Female Model School Sampler - Antique Sampler Reproductions (Kathleen Littleton) - 36-count natural linen (Zweigart) and called-for DMCs except for one substitution - fully finished with a hem-stitch hem.

Upon My Heart - Plum Street - the 30th Anniversary Sampler for the Queen City Sampler Guild; 40-count Dolley Madison by Needle and Flax; called-for threads, including Weeks Dye Works, Classic Colorworks, and DMC.

Stars - Plum Street (companion piece is “& Stripes” by Shakespeare’s Peddler). 36-count White Clay by Fox & Rabbit, called-for floss except for a substitution of  DMC 3865 for Ecru.

Madras Beanstalk - Robin Pickens Cross Stitch - 28-count Ivy Cashel Linen from Fiber on a Whim, Cosmo floss, 2-over-2. (Kit)

A Rice Stitch Cushion - Shakespeare’s Peddler - 32-count Dusty Road by Seraphim (?) - called-for Weeks Dye Works, 2 threads over 4 linen threads (rice stitch)

Hannah Coughnet 1841 - 36-count Cow Fodder by Dames of the Needle, DMC 2-over-2 - charting in progress. The antique is in the collection of The LeRoy Historical Society in LeRoy, NY. We are planning to release this sampler and hold an event in spring 2027. 

Hannah Weeks 1848 - Red Barn Samplers (Rae Niles) - 40-count Cactus Wren by Fox and Rabbit, called-for Weeks and Classic Color Works threads. (This is a workshop release for a May 2nd event for the Queen City Sampler Guild.)


Variety Show

Books with Christian themes:
Theo of Golden by Alan Levi
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Warden by Anthony Trollope 
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Healing Maddie Brees by Rebecca Stevenson