The balance of greens, reds, and blue against an otherwise neutral palette makes the sampler so visually appealing and alive with colour. I think she was very intentional with her colours and that the results were not just a happy accident. She did so similarly in the floral band beneath the verse. In the border flowers, she carefully placed each pair of colours so as to not repeat a combination. She shows great attention to detail in the way that she matched her top and bottom borders and then also matched her side borders with perfect symmetry. My impression of Maria is that she was a very organized and disciplined girl. It amazes me that at the young age of 11 Maria took such great care with her work. I stitched her model on 46ct linen which, when finished, was almost the exact size of the original sampler. Maria’s colours are beautifully preserved and she was reproduced using the colours on the front of the sampler. She arrived in February 2021 and brought sunshine on a cold winter’s day. Maria is a beautiful sampler that has been painstakingly reproduced and exquisitely stitched by Lisa Brown.

We are pleased to present to you Maria Ewin – our Queen of the May for the year 2023. Click HERE for the printed booklet.Įach year Hands Across the Sea Samplers publishes a sampler which we consider to be not only beautiful but outstandingly so and worthy to be crowned our Queen of the May. Available as pdf download and as a printed booklet.

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