Showing posts with label jane austen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jane austen. Show all posts

09 June 2016

playing catch up!

I have managed to restore the blog files and voila!, it's back online sooooo huzzah!
I'm playing catch up but here are some visuals of recent days worth.

Her Thoughts, a Jane Austen Sampler
NEW design available on The Sampler Girl website
Model & photo by Mary Kathryn Peter 



The weekly farmer's market visit yielded a delicious farmhouse-made apple turnover for brekkie one morning plus juicy summer ripe tomatoes that donned, with salt & pepper, some biscuits later in the week.



Bookclub pick for June is When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Quite a thoughtful and  moving memoir written by a brave neurosurgeon who was stricken with cancer; his pages of tender reflection live on in place of him. There were several passages which I did skim over as they were Physican-minded but otherwise, it is a very easy read.



Knitting occurs any day with a y in it ... usually. And the summer weather has been absolitely gorgeous / almost Fall-like recently, but warmer days are coming, like this afternoon. It was quite warm yet I was working away on yet another wool shawl that I can't wear for several months time but well, it's just so fun to knit. I'm participating in A Knitter's Life Podcast's Miss Marple KAL; this design is simply called Miss Marple Shawl; it is mindless knitting and keeps me company as of late. The darling progress stitch marker is from my mom; it is too cute!!



I promise it won't be a month till I write again ... gather JOY in the meanwhile.

14 March 2016

NEW Jane Austen-inspired cross stitch !!


Good Morning! It's a grey, damp Monday morning here so I'm excited to post about some cheerful, colorful, happy things. There are now FIVE new Jane Austen-inspired patterns available on the website / www.samplergirlstudio.com / I hope you like them! I'm positively wild for them as I adore Jane Austen's words on fabric and displayed around my home. Please check out the website for details on each design.

No 1 Jane Austen, on blushing
No 2 Jane Austen, on a bad hair day
No 3 Jane Austen, on Mrs. Darcy
No 4 Jane Austen, on nothing but tea 
No 5 Jane Austen, to Eleanor's Room!

These patterns are available from me in PDF Pattern Download; paper chart paks will be sent later this week to distributors. Any questions? Just pop over to ask here or via the site.

Gather JOY!
/ tanya /

12 March 2016

New Releases coming Monday . . .

Is it Monday yet???

I have 5 NEW Jane Austen-inspired cross stitch designs ready to release on the website for you on Monday!! Each measures no more than 5 " by 7" when stitched on 28ct using DMC cotton floss and well, I'm giddy to show them all to you. In the meanwhile, here's a snippet of one of them.




17 December 2015

a Jane Austen free chart for you from me ~ happy Christmas!

(click chart to enlarge for printing)
A little free chart with Jane Austen verse for you to enjoy this holiday season with threads and fabric of your own selection. I'd love to see your creation so if you are on Instagram, stitch it up and tag it with the hashtag #thesamplergirl and I'll be sure to see it !!

17 February 2015

podcast episode 49: simple knitting

Show Notes!

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the sampler girl on YouTube

OFF THE NEEDLES
The Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief
Topography Kerchief

ON THE NEEDLES
Be Simple Shawl / for #rainbowalong with Dianne's Suburban Stitcher Podcast
Cotton Washcloths / for #burnunitkal with Sally-Jane's Pink Hair Girl Podcast

The Sampler Girl Ravelry Group KALs
Downton Abbey KAL - ends March 1
Jane Austen CRAFTALONG - ends Feb 28 / A Jane Austen Pocket free download design by me
Log Cabin KAL - ongoing

ENDING THOUGHT

Music Credit
Simple Gifts performed by Yo-Yo Ma & Alison Krauss

24 January 2015

knitting, and always Jane Austen

How I wished I lived in a Jane Austen nove!
-Dodie Smith.
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Last night I watched Sense and Sensibility. Again. And still not enough. The version with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson is my favorite. Some of my favorite scenes:

-Marianne singing and Col. Brandon walking in, being captivated by her.
-Elinor's shawl falling while she and Edward are out walking, he picks it up and hands it back to her.
-Elinor watching Margaret and Edward playing with wooden swords as Elinor writes at her desk by the window.
-Candlelight and the dancing.
-ALL the hats!

This morning was a quiet, but early one. Normally a tea drinker, coffee called to me and was most enjoyable. Knitting on my Brattleboro hat and loving Orchid Hazel Knits Cadence yarn!