Description
Like the lotus flowers behind her, with their blooms growing up from the darkness, Persephone emerges from the underworld once a year to return to her mother Demeter and herald the beginning of Spring Designer Nora Corbett. The design is stitched in whole and partial cross stitch and backstitch using 50 shades of stranded cottons, and Mill Hill beads glass seed 00525 light green, glass seed 02010 ice, glass seed 02011 victorian gold, glass seed 02016 crystal mint, glass seed 02077 brilliant magenta, glass seed 02085 brilliant orchid, glass seed 02096 orange, antique seed 03048 cinnamon red, size 6 16609 opal smokey topaz, frosted seed 62038 aquamarine, medium bugle 82023 root beer. The stitch count is 200 by 300 and the model was worked on 32 count linen using DMC floss.
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Microtex needles 80
Appletons 122 Crewel Wool Terra Cotta
Gentle Art Sampler Threads 0580 Orange Marmalade
Whitework Magic Cube Pattern
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Appletons 105 Crewel Wool Purple
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Sue Spargo Ellana #12 EN20 Cloud
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Sue Spargo Ellana #12 EN13 Electric Lime
Classic Colorworks CCT-155 Roasted Chestnut
Appletons 151 Crewel Wool Mid Blue
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Appletons 147 Crewel Wool Dull Rose Pink
Sue Spargo Ellana #12 EN12 Avocado
Sue Spargo Ellana #12 EN03 Fog
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Quaker Christmas Samplers by Carriage House Samplings 



