Bay Area Sampler Guild

The Mermaid Sampler with Lauren Sauer

Date: October 7, 2006
Location: Community Room, Taraval Police Station
2345 24th Ave, San Francisco Ca.
Kit Fee: $95

Lauren's Mermaid Series continues with The Mermaid's Sampler which draws upon design elements, ideas and motifs found in early American needlework. Most of this sampler is embroidered over one, especially Plymouth Harbor, and the Mermaid herself.

33/34 count 'Devonshire Cream' Legacy Linen provides the ground for this new voyage. A wide variety of silk and cotton threads, many of them hand and over-dyed are used to give your interpretation shimmer, sheen, and subtlety in shades of the beautiful sea. For whimsy, a necklace of tiny, real coral beads will adorn your Mermaid.

Embroidery stitches used include stem, Smyrna, satin, running, French knots four-sided, faux boullion, eyelet, diagonal satin, cross-stitch 'over one' and 'over two', and backstitch.

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