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| Fantasy Sampler |
This is a Theresa Wentzler pattern. I have a hate/love relationship with Theresa Wentzler patterns. They are some of the most beautiful pieces when worked up. The challenge is working them up, not only are they beautiful but they are very detailed. Theresa Wentzler uses many colors in her patters and she likes to use blended colors and petti point stitches. Every few stitches you end up changing colors. They take a long time to work up, but as you can see, are well worth the effort. The pattern for this Fantasy Sampler calls for the alphabet to be placed up at the top. You may ask why in the world would someone want to put the alphabet on something so beautiful. The reason being is many many years ago when young girls were expected to sit and stitch for hours, they would do sampler pieces and they would always stitch the alphabet, that is how they learned their ABC's. Don't quote me on that, but it's what I've heard. I personally didn't want to put the alphabet onto mine. A friend came up with this quote which I though went so well with the picture of the lady playing the flute to the dragon. Every time I do a Theresa Wentzler pattern I swear I will never do another one, but I've ended up doing three so far, and I have several more patterns from her that I want to do. I may complain about the tediousness of these patterns, but truth be known.... I just love to cross stitch and it provides me with a challenge. Given time, I will eventually do another one of her patterns, they are too beautiful to resist. And as you all know, resistance is futile.........
