Emma Badman Wadford
This is a personal favorite - I love Emma’s garden teeming with birds and lovely floral motifs! Plus - the unique placement of her alphabets is a really nice feature. The chartpak includes details for a smaller adaptation, should you prefer to stitch something a bit smaller and focus only on the lower portion of the sampler. Other than a small number of eyelet stitches, everything is standard cross stitches.
The model is stitched using silks (see supplies below), but a suggested conversion to overdyed cottons and DMC are also included.
Stitch count:
278w x 308h
Fabric:
Access Commodities: 38 count Brewer's Malt* Legacy linen (similar to DMC 822 or 3047)
*Brewer's Malt is discontinued; suggested Legacy linen alternate is Fuller's Teazel
Threads:
AVAS/Soie d'Alger: 526, 1716, 1845, 1846, 2242 ,2521, 3424, 3425, 3433, 3445, 3726, 3742, 3834, 4122
Classic Colorworks, Belle Soie silk: Mer Bleu, Porcelain Pink, Velvet Rose, Walk the Plank
An adaptation featuring the lower portion of the original sampler.
Stitch count:
259w x 219h
Alternate Color Palette:
Classic Colorworks: Cocoa Bean, Desert Mesquite, Finley Gold, Pebble Beach, Polliwog, Roasted Chestnut, Spinach
Weeks Dye Works: Blackboard, Charlotte's Pink, Chickpea, Cranberry Ice, Deep Sea, Fathom, Holly, Hunter, Parchment, Sandcastle, Seaweed
Floss conversions are subjective and not all are close matches. Make your own color and dye lot selections with the entire color palette in mind.
EMMA BADMAN WADFORD, Copyright 2023. Original counted thread designs by Linda Stolz for Erica Michaels Designs.