One night, my fingers were feeling bored, so I picked up my Lizzie Kate Living with Charm Banner and reasoned that it was easy stitching and that I could finish the last three words pretty quickly. I haven’t done much stitching for the last couple of years. This entry was posted on February 10, 2015, in Finished Cross Stitch, Teresa Wentzler, Victoria Sampler, Works In Progress. When I opened the kit to stitch, I found that the border was already partially stitched – about 15 stitches in the upper right hand corner! I guess someone started it and didn’t like it and put it up on Amazon. I thought that was a little weird, but bought it anyway. The story on the Pennsylvania one is a little bizarre! I searched for the pattern on google and saw it offered for sale on Amazon. I received mail there, so it counts, right? I’ll do something with these someday…. I have one of these for every state I’ve lived in: New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Indiana! I lived for a summer in Denver during college, so I might try to find Colorado and do that one too. I’ve also recently finished the VS Pennsylvania Hearts of America. My camera battery is dead and I took these pictures in low lighting with my iphone. Since my last post, I’ve finished stitching and backstitching the border and the scarab, finished stitching the falcon (still needs backstitching) and started stitching Horus. I’m not really “into” Egyptian stuff, but my DH is so I’m doing this for him. Its beautiful! I love the colors and the subject matter. Here is my latest update on Teresa Wentzler’s Egyptian Sampler. 2 Comments Ra Smiles Upon Me (Egyptian Sampler Update) This entry was posted on April 10, 2016, in Finished Cross Stitch, Holidays, Teresa Wentzler, Uncategorized, Victoria Sampler, Works In Progress. So for now, I’m just going to keep on working on Egyptian Sampler and ignore all of my other WIPs. I love the little gingerbread man buttons! Plus the accessory pack that I ordered had two different sized stars! I contacted Thea at Victoria Sampler and she sent me the correct button size. There were some errors in the pattern as published, so for some of this I was just on my own. When I travel I like to take something small. I spend the week of Christmas with some family and kitted up a Victoria Sampler ornament from the 2015 Just Cross Stitch Ornament Edition to take with me. When I started doing the background I had to pull out the staff and the flail on the middle figure but it shouldn’t take much to add those back in now. A little tedious but not as bad as I thought it would be. I’m happy to say that I’m more than halfway through with a long way to go! I’m happy to have finished the frame all the way around and the background in the arch. I think my husband, who I’m stitching this for is finally starting to get what goes into cross stitch! I’ve been working on this, on and off, for about a year and a half. Here is my progress through yesterday on my Teresa Wentzler Egyptian Sampler. HI… Even though I’ve been quiet on the blog, I have been doing quite a bit of stitching! Now… what to stitch next? I’ve got some ideas, but whatever I pick up will be smaller and less complicated!! TWs are certainly a lot of work and of all of them that I’ve stitched (non fantasy and no dragons) this is quickly turning into my favorite! I’ve found a local framer and picked out where this will hang in our home… right above his statues of Anubis and Wapawhets and other Egyptian objects. My giant tub of orvus was tossed when I moved and had to order some that should be here early next week. but considering that I spent about 8 hours fiddling with them, they are as good as they are going to get! That was 2.5 years ago and its finally done! I’ve found some errors in this, but I’m choosing to consider them “unintentional personalization.” I had trouble tacking the rays down and keeping them straight. I knew of Teresa Wentzler’s Egyptian Sampler and I knew that I would stitch it for him. When he said Egyptian mythology, an idea was born! He basically studied ALL of them and I asked him if there was one that was his favorite (he is a multi-faith reverend). I’ve done several TWs but honesty didn’t think I would do another until I was talking with Will about his Masters degree in Religion.
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