Cross Stitch
- Border Prints
- Canvas Tapestries
- Cloth Tapestries
- Cotton Panels by Juliette Mairel
- Cross Stitch
- Four Matching Cloths of La Fontaine’s Fables
- Two Matching French Dish Cloths
- Individual Kitchen, Tea, and Dish Towels
- Embroidered Napkins
- Embroidery Hoop Cloths
- Felt Activity Book
- Full-Length Tapestries
- Molas from Panama
- Quilt Panels
- Runners
- Samplers
- Stackers
- Individual Cloths
- Needlepoint Patterns
1970? Hand-sewn, framed cross stitch "Aesop's Fables." A composition of four Aesop's fables titles and characters, 21" x 29". $48.59 from Maria Juhasz, Gainesville, FL, through Ebay, Nov., '99.
This large, framed, piece of stitchery puts together the four components in pleasing fashion. A heavy green border includes leaves above and below a design that announces "Aesop's Fables" at the upper left. Under it a fox has turned around from the grapes behind him to look at the viewer. He sits as though on an arch formed above the head of a lion lying across the base of the work. The lion looks at a small mouse before him. Above his haunch are the country and town mice talking to each other while perched, respectively, on a stalk of grain and a rope. Above the square which they occupy are a tortoise and hare under an arch. I am delighted to have found this and proud to display it in my office! If you click on it above, you will see a fuller-sized version.
2000? Tortoise and Hare cross-stitch with French "goal" sign. 8˝" x 20". $30 from Tess Moran, Poolesville, MD, through Ebay, May, '22.
Though the seller notes a small flaw among the flowers, this is still a lovely creation! Framed and ready to hang.
2002? Cross-stitch "Easy Does it!" TH. Felt over a board. 8” x 10”. $5.75 from Diane Strohmenger, March, '04.
Images depict a hare and a tortoise above and below, respectively, the rather unusual moral “Easy Does it!” sewn into the center of the image.
2004 Cross stitch of FC "Wrought by the Hand." Dorothy Unangst. 9˝" x 7˝". $5 from dcmanno through Ebay, Nov., '02.
Very nice work! In this case, the crow is perched on top of a roof rather than in a tree. The composition is lovely. Trees on either side frame the house together with the two characters. Beautifully framed. Later searching with Google reveals that the pattern comes from Prairie Schooner and it is, in their mind, FG rather than FC. There are indeed grapes -- and there is a bird looking on....
2004 Unframed Cross stitch of FC. 11.2" x 7.5". Image 6.6" x 4.25". Unknown source.
Imagine my surprise when I found an exact copy unframed. Can we assume that a pattern was somewhere published and many people followed the pattern? Like the framed copy above, this is very nice work! As there, the crow is perched on top of a roof rather than in a tree. The composition is lovely. Trees on either side frame the house together with the two characters.