Mrs Julia D. Brown's Portfolio Cross Stitch Chart by NeedleWorkPress Hands Across the Sea and she will enjoy this

and she will enjoy this piece throughout the Spring and Easter seasons in her home

You will notice a small design finished as a scissor block - this was stitched on 30 count silk gauze (not included)

Suggested DMC substitutions are given for Weeks floss colors in parenthesis and will give a different look to the piece

This is the 3rd in "Be" series

wooden base

Mrs Julia D. Brown's Portfolio Cross Stitch Chart by NeedleWorkPress Hands Across the Sea and she will enjoy thisMaegan tells us "Perforated Paper Portfolios are an interesting form of needlework produced occasionally by avid needleworkersgenerally not schoolgirlsin the 19th century. They were typically backed with silk and bound together like a thin book and used to hold letters, sketches and personal papers. Fortunately, Julia D. Browns portfolio was framed and preserved at some point in its history. While studying her unique work of art, we learned that Julia