Description
This listing is for a digital PDF file. Immediately after purchase you can download your file, in either Letter format (used mainly in Canada, the US, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines) or A4 (rest of the world). This design is Pattern Keeper compatible.
Janet Gibson Jolly 1890 is one of two samplers I purchased last year from an auction in Scotland. The 2nd sampler was made by her sister Susan Jolly and is also available here. I love the bright colours of this sampler – the sisters definitely honoured their names with their bold choices!
The booklet features a biography on both sisters who grew up in rural Wigtownshire, in the south-west of Scotland. The patterns are pattern keeper compatible. Two colourways have been created for this design: one in the original bright colours found on the back, and the 2nd colourway is my personal, more muted version with shades of blue, green, and ochre.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Janet’s sampler measures 191 crosses in width and 199 crosses in height. Please see the graph below for sizing estimates. The design has a total of 9 colours. The key gives the original shades found on the back of the sampler and my alternative colour choice with shades of blue. The “stitches” column indicates how many stitches each colour has, followed by columns indicating the amount of metres of floss required. These amounts are based on working with 6-stranded floss, working with two pulled strands on 28, 32 and 36-count linen, and 1 pulled strand on higher counts. A typical DMC skein has 8 metres of floss – most hand-dyed floss brands have 8-yards
(7.3 metres). Youc an also stitch on aida fabric: just divide the linen counts by 2 (so 28-ct becomes 14-ct etc).
Feel free to take liberties with how you interpret this sampler. You can choose your own colours, and you can work your own family initials there. If you want to follow the traditional Scottish model, you stitch your father’s initials first, then your mother’s initials (with her maiden name). After this, the initials of siblings are worked. It is possible (if there is space left) to put paternal and maternal grandparents or other relatives on the sampler.
If you still have space left after this, you can fill it with another alphabet (as far as it will go), just as the Jolly sisters did on their samplers.
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