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.
Appletons 121 Crewel Wool Terra Cotta
Appletons 145 Crewel Wool Dull Rose Pink
Au Ver a Soie 144 Soie d Alger
DMC 435 Stranded Cotton
Appletons 896 Crewel Wool Hyacinth
DMC 335 Stranded Cotton
Classic Colorworks CCT-003 Bamboo
Au Ver a Soie 163 Soie d Alger
Appletons 122 Crewel Wool Terra Cotta
Gentle Art Sampler Threads 0160 Willow 



