I’ve been a bit lax of late, not posting progress on my long, green sampler. In spite of steampunk outfits, work deadlines, and other craziness, slow progress is being made. As you can see, I finished the last pattern, and I’m almost done with the latest strip:
This latest one is of a particularly long repeat. So long in fact that only a portion of it fits across this space. I’ve chosen to do it foreground style, in long-armed cross stitch. The ultimate source is one of Domenico da Sera’s modelbooks, published in Lyons, in 1532. I found a single page from Lotz 69b reproduced, and charted it up from that. This pattern will be in TNCM2.
String-Or-Nothing 
OK, so what kind of flower is this thing? There seems to be one sorta blossom (?) as the middle motif. I would be tempted to say artichoke, since they seem to show up in 16th century samplers, coifs, etc.. But… any guess?
–Kathryn