At Long Last

Jane Longstreth is finished! This sampler has been a work-in-progress since 2005 (or so) and was finished on 6-17-11. The sampler is a reproduction of one done by Jane Longstreth, a resident of Chester County, Pennsylvania, when she was 14 years old. The original is in the collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. It includes over-one stitching, stem stitches and satin stitches done on 36-count with AVAS threads.

Jane Longstreth

It's been awhile (over a year?) since I posted anything here. I finally got back to working on Jane Longstreth and you can see my progress here. The plan is to work on Jane for 15 days of every month until she is finished.

Here's my progress on Jane Longstreth after its last round in my rotation. I'm hoping to finish up the over-one lettering in the box and the flowers in the basket the next time I stitch on this. Several people commented that they were not familiar with this sampler. It was published to help preserve the samplers in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. Jane was a Quaker from Chester County, PA which is close to where I live so that added to its appeal. I have seen the sampler on The Attic's website (no affliation) and perhaps other shops have it as well.

Hello, my name is Susan and I currently have 34 WIPs. This is Jane Longstreth, a sampler from the Vassar Collection that I started 1/5/05. It became a UFO when I got seduced by a number of other projects and because it will require some resizing of the chart to finish. Those branches over on the left will need leaves that were to be traced from the chart and then stem stitched. Except that I did not use the same count as the chart called for and I'll need to re-size them. I finally decided that I'm up for the challenge and that this will be in my rotation. I'll put in about 10 days a month on it with the goal of finishing by the end of the summer.