Floss Tube #44 "Samplers, Quilts, Dye from Roots and Forgotten Fruit" 

Thank you for joining me Peg!!!

I am so happy to have you here!!! Thank you so much for watching!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for watching!

Thank you for joining me!!!! I love all of these side topics and I am thrilled to have you join me!

I can't seem to stitch on anything else!!!!

Wonderful!

Thank you Rebecca!!!!! I will definitely look that up and continue the conversation!

This is fantastic and I would love to hear more about your Pharaby!!!!!

It sounds as if your relative had hardships but tried her best! I will endeavor to be true to the fantastic name!

Such treasured possessions and memories!!!! I do hope you will write your stories down for you descendants!

I meant that persimmons are in our folklore. (Please forgive my poor sentence structure.)

The medlar tree and its fruit do resemble the persimmon. I need to learn so much more. It sure has been fun so far!!!

Oh yeah I was also going to say. My first pair of embroidery scissors was a gift from my grandmother when I was 10. I'm still using them and they're right here by me, though I have 3 other pairs here too...

I love all of the incidental learning that comes along with stitching!!! My next goal is to taste one!

Thank you Katie. I love knowing you were watching!!!! I hope you got in lots of stitches AND I would love to know your thoughts on that pesky fruit😳🤪

​@@susanstandleystitchintime My money would be on apples but it's hard to say without seeing the original - it doesn't matter so much what the fruit actually looks like, more the style of how it's being drawn in the relevant period. The scale is not an issue - out of scale elements are a common feature of 17th century English needlework. The original design would have been drawn onto the ground by a draftsman, and they usually worked from known pattern sources. You can generally identify flowers in this period not by their actual characteristics but because we know that's how they draw a borage, or a carnation, or an elgantine rose etc. Pomegranates were often depicted split open to expose the seeds, and they never missed the little flourish at the top. This piece bears a strong resemblance to how apple trees were drawn, but there was usually (although not always) a little dot stitched on the round apple to indicate the dimple at the bottom of an apple and signal to the viewer that that was what they were looking at. On balance, I'd guess apple but it also depends on how close the model is to the 17th century original. I'll send you some photos tomorrow and you can evaluate the evidence for yourself - I've chosen tent stitched pieces that would have been worked for household decoration so you're comparing like to like.

The leaves definitely hold clues and finding leaves and fruit that are compatible and time period accurate is proving to be a fun challenge. I am not sure if we will ever know for sure but it is oh so fun to explore the options!

It makes sense to me ! I don’t think I will come to any firm conclusions but it has been so fun to research!

What an excellent question! It’s going to look a lot more like Berlin work with raised and lowered sections. So far I am fine with it as it doesn’t take away from the saturation of color, and the dimension is really only visible when I look at it with my magnifiers. We will see as it progresses. Hopefully it’s something I can live with. If not, the frog will be doing a lot of work.❤️

Thank you. Let me check

I appreciate you letting me know!!!! It’s all fixed!

I liked the texture of the Surfine with the SDJ and since the piece is full coverage I didn’t want the stitches to get too tight. Just a personal choice. I believe 100/3 would have worked well too!!!