We have been busy getting things ready for the next prim shipment. We should start shipping by the beginning of next week. I love this piece- Pat stitched it and I was drooling over it the whole time! We even dyed a special color of linen for this one- Prim Yellow. Here is a sneak peak.
If you wish to order extra things to ship with your prim just send me an email or call the shop. I am happy to include whatever you need(want!)
We got some amazing entries for the prim tag contest. Truly, I was blown away by all of the creativity. I am doing one big prize and two smaller ones but you all get a round of applause for your efforts! The big prize winner is Faye Riggsbee. Faye- you never fail to amaze me with your talents. The two others that will receive prizes are Rita Ogden and Dede Caplinger. I will send the prizes in the next prim shipment. Congratulations ladies!
We are getting things started for the retreat in the fall too. We have a few spots left- not many. If you are thinking about it please send in your registration so you aren't disappointed. Don't forget final payments are due May 1st.
Here are some new things we have stitched for the shop. The first is the Valetine set from With thy Needle and Thread- so sweet. The second photo is the new hearts from By the Bay. These are so clever. Love them.
I picked Ann Wood as the sampler this week. She went to the Nine Partners School in New York and you don't see many of these. Ann put the rules to mark napkins on her sampler and also a ligature. See the letter that looks like an f all in a row? That is a ligature. It was a Quaker code that meant Quakers could speak openly in that household. Remember for a long time Quakers were religously pursecuted. I love this piece. She is one of my favorite samplers.
Hope you all had a wonderful Holiday weekend.
Oh wow! Can't believe I won something! Thanks so much for the contest. I really enjoyed the stitching and it pushed me to think outside the box. I hope you show some of the other finishes. Always good to get others ideas for inspiration.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the next project (and my prize!).
Thanks again!
Good grief I love those little hearts! And of course, Miss A. - Abigail or Attitude!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to meet sweet Abigail! And how I love that Quaker! I had no idea about the ligature.. So interesting.
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That information about the ligature is new to me too. Every day - something new. I may have to add that sampler to my ever-growing list of must-haves! Irene xxx
ReplyDeleteOh wow!!!! I won! Thank you so much!! Cant wait to get the next prim, the peak looks beautiful. Ok, my needy list is growing. There is some gotta haves you posted!!!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love little miss Abigail!!!!!! She's so sweet :-). And I can't wait for the new Prim Society piece!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my!!!! I'm thrilled to win!!! It was so much fun creating and I thank you fir the challenge!!!! I will post a photo on my blog!!!! Thanks so so much!!!! Faye
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ReplyDeleteYour Abigail is PRECIOUS!!!! So glad you have someone to help fill the void.....never replace, but help. Only animal lovers understand!!
ReplyDeleteAt the risk of sounding pedantic (!), ligatures are characters or typeface letters that are joined together to save space on a line of type/printing or speed of writing, or in (now sadly defunct!) letters that used to signify dipthongs, two vowel sounds one right after the other, like ae or oe. So for example, the letter combination "fi" would be sort of smooshed together into one, the dot of the i becoming incorporated into the little dot-like serif at the end of the curve in the f, or (much as we do today when writing quickly!) "tt" or "ff" would have one single bar crossing and joining them together, instead of two completely separate letters. For some reason, "ct" was also prone to being ligatured in printing, with a sort of half-circle joining the top of the c with the top of the t -- not really necessary, I suppose, but beautiful anyway!
ReplyDeleteThe letter in the Ann Wood sampler that looks like an f without some or all of its bar is actually a "long-s" and was commonly used in both handwriting and printing. You see it most often nowadays in 18th-century documents like the Bill of Rights in which the word "Congress" looks to us now like "Congrefs," and in Shakespeare et al. where, say, "kiss" would be printed "kifs". By the 18th century, the rules of when it would be used were mostly as the first in an "ss" combination (as in "Congrefs") and at the beginning (but not the end) of a word ("fubftitute," "books").
The Quakers may very well have used ligatures as signals to each other -- I hadn't heard that before, it's fascinating! and ligatures are certainly unusual on non-Quaker samplers -- but ligatures were certainly well-known to the general public!