I report the finish on my RESIST sampler. Completed, signed and dated.

Don’t worry about that dot on the bottom margin – that’s just fluff I neglected to brush off prior to the photo. The message is dead serious, but there are some silly bits in it. Like the dragon heads that parade across the top. The eyes in the original are empty – no pupils. But I put some in on this strip, and got several emotions when I did. My dragon heads look angry, attentive, contemplative, attentive, and bored. And more. Just a whim.

I am also pleased with the Pegasus strip – doodled up just for this piece. It will be included in my forthcoming Ensamplario Atlantio Volume III (EnsAtl3). No timeline yet for that release. Here are the sources for all fifteen bands, top to bottom.

• Dragon head edging – The Second Carolingian Modelbook (T2CM), Plate 25:4. Redaction with impromptu manic eyeball improvisations.
• Acorn meander – T2CM, Plate 25:3. My original.
• Line interlace – T2CM, Plate 11:3. Adaptation of non-graphed modelbook design.
• Twisted meandering eels – T2CM, Plate 27:2. Redaction
• RESIST using alphabet border – Whole alphabet blocks and bits that fit around them, EnsAtl3. My original.
• Lily buds – Several versions in my various works, this one from my free class handout available on my patterns tab. Adapted redaction.
• Kittens and string – EnsAtl3. My original.
• Large floral all-over – EnsAtl3. My original.
• Doubled simple flower strip – T2CM, sample figure on building larger borders from narrow ones, on the write-up page for Plate 7. Original narrow strip, T2CM, Plate 6:3. My original.
• Cursed bunnies eating my hostas again – I had fun stabbing these guys, too, for obvious reasons. EnsAtl3. My original.
• Very large sprouting all-over. Broadside available here on String here and on my patterns tab. Redaction.
• Block edge border T2CM. Plate 23:2. My original.
• Thistles – T2CM, Plate 30:3/ Adaptation of non-graphed modelbook design.
• Pegasus strip – EnsAtl3. My original.
• Rooster edging – (Turn it upside down and you’ll see them). EnsAtl3. My original.

Now RESIST joins the three fangirl samplers I have completed, celebrating the science fiction works of my Resident Male. That’s a lot of stitching since June, shown here on my Wall of Shame, where all my finished but not yet framed works live.

What’s next? Probably another in the PERSIST-RESIST grouping. ASSIST will be longer than RESIST. Also on a high count not-so-evenweave linen remnant. As you can see, the prep step of hemming has started.

I’m torn about colors and threads. And I have to calculate the thread count of this scrap piece. I have a feeling that it’s a bit more skew than the other four, and probably a skosh coarser than RESIST. I have some silks in various colors that might work on it, doubled in happy polychromatic chaos. Or I might do it all in deep red, possibly with a spot of a shiny black for emphasis.

As to what to put on it, I’m also contemplating options. The word, for sure. Possibly some voided bits or heavy foreground long-armed cross stitch strapwork bands (I haven’t done much of that recently). Or maybe I’ll work in some tiles of fills. But not worked inside freehand drawn shapes – just in geometrics. I have LOTS of fills begging to be taken out to play, some of which I came up with on the fly for the Unstitched Coif project. Since that’s off at the V&A, it seems proper that I stitch them up on something I can look at and enjoy here at home.

Stay tuned for more stitchy mischief.