![]() I can’t find photos of sewing with my 3 older children, sadly. My Benjamin and I have had good times sewing together. You can’t find time for embroidery, but you can make time. We are so busy going to practice, to school, to the store etc that we don’t spend as much time as we wish to with our children. I will add one more excellent reason to start hand embroidery sampler, time together. If you want another reason to learn traditional and forgotten crafts then here it is, it teaches children patience, perseverance, concentration, and pride for a job well done! Seeing the fruits of our labors are lessons never forgotten! My years of crafting have given me much practice in these important virtues, which is good because boy did I need them! Actually we never stop needing them, am I right?Ĭan you see how hand embroidery samplers are so much more then just needle and thread?Īre you still not convinced? Well what’s the matter with you? Hehe, just kidding. Still not convinced? Keep reading! Reason For Embroidery Sampler Number 2 Plus these traditional crafts are just so much fun! It is true for me still and is working with my children, yes even my boys! (I have 5 of them. Passing these traditions on creates a wonderful feeling of connection in families. Though it would be good arm exercise!Įmbroidery is something I learned without to much trouble and without to much trouble, passed on to my children. I also don’t wish to do laundry for my family of 8 by hand. My mom told me she made a sampler, and her mom made one and so on back. I loved listening to my grandparents and parents talk about their past mishaps, struggles and fun times. I remember hearing the stories of cooking in coal stoves, of Monday laundry days that would take all day by hand in the basement. When it is done, I’ll come back and add it. The sewn version is come as the story progresses. When you were a child, did you love hearing the adults telling each other stories? I sure did! I would listen at the dinning room table for hours just soaking everything what I heard up.įollowing are 3 reasons why you should learn traditional embroidery and why I have passed these traditions on to my children. ![]() If you follow this journey with me you will see how wonderfully versatile embroidery is. With embroidery you can sew many different shapes of flowers and leaves…. ![]() There’s more things you can do with embroidery that is not possible with cross stitch. Later I learned embroidery and loved this so much more than cross stitch, even though I love cross stitch too. Hehe, why yes I am a big nerd thanks for asking □ ) (if this is you then slowing down your sewing will relieve this hardship from your life! Well it will if you keep at it, my occasional impatiences still brings back my tangle of hardship. ![]() I made my own cross stitch hand sampler and loved it despite the frustrations of knots and tangles. This started my journey of falling in love with the (hand sewing) forgotten traditional crafts. It was the second book in the series called “Felicity Learns A Lesson”. I first became fascinated by samplers when I was 10 or 11 by reading the story of Felicity Meriman from the well love American Girl series. If you don’t need any convincing and just want to get started then click here. You and your children will love her! Learn how to sew a simple needle book yourself here. Hornblower, Esq.This is Willow sewing a needle book. (Right): Sampler, unknown maker, 19th century, Turkey. (Left): Sampler, unknown maker, 19th century, Morocco. Nineteenth-century samplers acquired from Turkey and Morocco, with their randomly placed patterns suitable for decorating clothing and household linen, also recall the early function of English samplers as collections of designs and stitch effects. These include a piece worked in black cotton in a style typical of the Vierlande area of northern Germany a cutwork and drawn thread sampler made in the Swedish province of Skåne in 1863 and a group of drawn thread samplers bought new from the Gewerbeschule für Mädchen in Hamburg (a training school for girls) in 1885. However various pieces in our collection represent how the European sampler was still used as a tool of reference. In England, by the 19th century the sampler had become mostly a schoolroom exercise worked almost exclusively in cross stitch.
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