Mary Maynard 1797 St Patrick's Day the crisp air

the crisp air

Gladsome Tidings is the fifth pattern in our Christmas carol smalls series

The model is stitched on 36 count White Clay linen by Fox & Rabbit using the called for over-dyed cotton threads

(I grew up in the midwest on a farm

which speaks of heroes and nobleness

Mary Maynard 1797 St Patrick's Day the crisp airWhile I have been unable to determine with certainty who Mary Maynard was (there are at least three young ladies who could have been the Mary of our sampler), it is clear that in 1797 she stitched a beautiful sampler filled with colors, motifs, patterned dividers, and selections from section 7 of Alexander Popes An Essay on Man. Most of her sampler is executed in cross stitch over two linen threads. However, her name and date, the selections from