Persephone by Nora Corbett – A Mirabilia Design

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.