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	<title>The Embroiderers' Story &#187; Knitting &amp; Spinning</title>
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	<description>The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project.</description>
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		<title>Video of Plimoth Project and More</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/12/31/video-of-plimoth-project-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/12/31/video-of-plimoth-project-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tricia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting & Spinning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[colonial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to attend the exhibit &#8216;Twixt Art and Nature&#8216; you will be treated to footage of the Plimoth project in the video which is on the second floor.  The story of how our project was added to such an important exhibition is an interesting one, and starts with the sorry state of many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Goods</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/09/08/pocket-goods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Historical Background]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knitting & Spinning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bags]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Marty, via the comments:
What would they have kept in their knitted pocket?  Also, were these pockets made in other ways, such as quilted or of leather?
We surmise that the colonists kept small personal items in their knitted pockets, also coins, although there was little use for coins during Plymouth Colony&#8217;s early years. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August Show &amp; Tell</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/28/august-show-tell-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/28/august-show-tell-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting & Spinning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[show & tell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[applique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bobbin lace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bucks point lace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carli]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Here are a few more treats Carli brought for us to see.
She makes both knitted lace and bobbin lace. The knitted lace is draped across the small pieced and appliqued quilt she made &#8211; entirely by hand &#8211; for her grandfather.
The bobbin lace she &#8220;just learned to make in March, so this is all I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treats for Emily</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/20/treats-for-emily/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/20/treats-for-emily/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting & Spinning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dyeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cochineal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Penny knitted another awesome hat, this one for Emily. The pink is yarn Emily dyed with cochineal, which are indeed little bugs. Penny duplicate-stitched a skull, because Emily has a pirate aura.
I suppose going back to school is an acceptable excuse for leaving us.
]]></description>
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		<title>Knitted Pockets</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/19/knitted-pockets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/19/knitted-pockets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the comments Meg asked about the small knitted bags several of the female interpreters wear suspended from a belt. In the early 17th century pockets in clothing weren&#8217;t as universal as they are now (although Janet Arnold&#8217;s Patterns of Fashion 1560 &#8211; 1620 has several examples of extant items with either pockets sewn in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show and Tell August</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/17/show-and-tell-august/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/17/show-and-tell-august/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dyeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abigail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty-Anne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knitting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lacey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosemary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[samplers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Betty-Anne, Rosemary and Abigail all brought lovely show and tell objects to the last session. Wendy kindly photographed for me, as I had very cleverly &#8220;lost&#8221; my camera in the trunk of my car. We missed getting a snapshot of Rosemary&#8217;s gorgeous Victorian style beaded scissors case, with the beaded fringe and beaded neck cord.
Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dye Workshops and Departures</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/14/dye-workshops-and-departures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/08/14/dye-workshops-and-departures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emily is guest-posting today.
As someone who takes great pleasure in all things weird and wonderful, I am extraordinarily pleased with my blue right thumbnail. That’s right. It’s blue. Navy on the edge, fading to a gentle sort of sunny lakeside-ish color in the middle.
I haven’t taken a nailbrush to it because I tend to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Silk Lining II</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/06/09/blue-silk-lining-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/06/09/blue-silk-lining-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting & Spinning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue silk lining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weaving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blue silk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lakenhal Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leiden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scarn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spinning wheel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I have more pictures of the blue silk lining, but right now the lining is still threads. Very fine threads, and lots of them. The first picture is &#8220;picking the cross.&#8221;
The second is of Justin putting the cross on the pegs of the warping board. Justin explained the importance of the cross, and maintaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaina Spins</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/06/06/shaina-spins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/06/06/shaina-spins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting & Spinning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was Shaina&#8217;s last day with the Colonial Wardrobe department. She spent the afternoon spinning.
She and Penny (who figured out today she&#8217;s been spinning for 20 years) have been planning for her to try it, but Things kept coming up, as they will. Today Penny got out some wool and a drop spindle and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spin, Span, Spun</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/29/spin-span-spun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/29/spin-span-spun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 21:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deb Pulliam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[linen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We get COMMENTS! WHOO! I loves comments, yes I does.
Carolyn H wrote: Jill, Plimoth is so lucky to have this offer from Carol. (I think so too!) I think you’ll be so pleased at the durability of stockings knit from combed long wool. Some years ago I knit a pair of socks for my husband. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Spinning</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/28/more-spinning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/28/more-spinning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting & Spinning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carol H]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kat C]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an update on what Kat C has been working on. She&#8217;s one of the generous spinners who contacted me a few months ago offering to spin some yarn suitable for finer stockings.
During our first email exchange we considered different breeds of sheep. Here&#8217;s what Kat said:
I work a lot with Shetlands, due to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On another note</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/27/on-another-note/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/27/on-another-note/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 01:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aimee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from, and happening simultaneously with, all the jacket progress, we&#8217;ve had lots of knitting and spinning progress happening. I&#8217;m going to take a few days and try to update that aspect of our work.
I had several generous responses when I asked if anyone would be interested in spinning some yarn for a finer stocking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I did on Jury Duty</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/19/what-i-did-on-jury-duty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/19/what-i-did-on-jury-duty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed today, the last day of this session, due to a summons to jury duty. I had to go to Brockton, a city, not The Big City, but a city nonetheless. I am definitely a country mouse. Luckily I didn&#8217;t get lost, and I found a place to park. The next hurdle was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justin working on the blue silk</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/07/justin-working-on-the-blue-silk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/07/justin-working-on-the-blue-silk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting & Spinning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the second installment from Justin. The italics are quotes from Justin&#8217;s email.
Some more shots of the bat head on my wheel.
Bat heads were the most common in  New England before Minor&#8217;s, or the accelerating, head replaced them in the early  19th century to handle the newer, shorter fleeced breeds of sheep which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beginning of the lining</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/06/the-beginning-of-the-lining/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/05/06/the-beginning-of-the-lining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first email from Justin, the Village interpreter and weaver who is making the blue silk lining for the jacket in conjunction with Kate of Eaton Hill Textile Works.
Here are some pictures of the current progress on the silk lining. See yesterday&#8217;s entry for a picture of the sample. I knew it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/04/08/more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for all your encouraging comments. I will photograph more motifs tomorrow at the office and post them.
About the plaited braid stitch, I know Tricia is working on a set of instructions with great photos that can be posted here and downloaded, like she did for all the other stitches we&#8217;ve been doing.
She and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/25/your-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lace sample received from Julie E. This and all the lace samples are just gorgeous. I get seriously distracted when a new one comes in, holding it up, watching the sequins tremble. . . getting a little nervous about sewing it all together. . .
Lovely green stockings received from Monique N. I honestly feel that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPEN!</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/22/open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was opening day of the 2008 season at Plimoth Plantation. It was sunny but a little cold, with the wind off the water. It warmed up nicely, though.
Here are a couple of pictures taken by Penny at the 1627 English Village morning meeting. This meeting lasts only a few minutes and is sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embroidering Now and Then</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/21/embroidering-now-and-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I have more pictures from the February 29th embroidery session.
Here is Ellen working a ceylon stitch worm in Gilt Sylke Twist. I love the worms.
And here are Ellen and Wendy looking at two antique samplers Ellen brought for show &#38; tell. The samplers belong to Ellen&#8217;s family, and within a few minutes Wendy had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Up</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/19/catching-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kandy left us a note in the comments that she&#8217;s a new knitter, too, lured in by the jacket project. She said she&#8217;d tried it before but it never &#8220;took&#8221; with her, but this time it did.
Colleen asked if we&#8217;d ever tried hand pounded oak staves in our stays. No, we haven&#8217;t. We use oak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Day</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/18/a-good-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a good day in Colonial Wardrobe. For one thing, we got to see Wendy.
For another, we got to see Mark, and the way cool gilt ribbon. He kindly brought it up to show us and he and Wendy measured it. Over 18&#8242; of gilt ribbon. We figure it&#8217;ll make, oh, plenty of teardrop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knitters&#8217; Hall of Fame</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/11/knitters-hall-of-fame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since November, 2007, we have received:
Stockings from: 
Deb W from MA
Veronica M (two pair)
Virginia S
Melanie Anne (two pair)
Linda F
Liz P
Deb W from Texas
Cindy S
Leslie H
Salley C
Gloves from:
Rosemary C (two pair)
Liz P
Julie S (two pair)
The interpreters have been coming in all week, picking up their period clothes and choosing new knitted stockings from this fantastic collection. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leap Day</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/03/02/leap-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are more pictures from Friday. The first two show the transformation of the laundry room into a lunch room.
Remember how Beth said that some embroiderers knit? Here&#8217;s Rosemary with her first stocking (for us). She&#8217;s already knit two pairs of gloves, one larger and one smaller (the smaller ones fit me perfectly). This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Morning</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/02/08/friday-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Karen asked, in a comment on The Spangle Quest post, whether a blog or list on this blog can be set up for the lacemakers to get together. I have absolutely no idea whether that can be done; I&#8217;ve asked Rich. He&#8217;ll know.
This morning the embroiderers gathered in Accomack to begin another session of work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/01/31/more-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, when I mentioned the Textile Conservation Fund and thanked the Mayflower Sampler Guild for their donation, I neglected to thank the Fund&#8217;s godmother. Wendy of Wee Works and Tokens &#38; Trifles not only suggested that we establish a fund for the conservation of Plimoth&#8217;s samplers, she pretty much insisted on it. It wasn&#8217;t that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thistle while you work</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/01/25/thistle-while-you-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Kris and Heather are embroidering to close out the week. Those are Kris&#8217; hands. Heather&#8217;s working on a thistle. Thank you, Wendy, for the photos and for the title for today&#8217;s post. Yesterday we walked to the 1627 Village in the freezing cold and gathering clouds (seems it only snows around here when we&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mingled Color</title>
		<link>http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2007/07/31/mingled-color/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of the scheduled sessions are full or nearly so. I have sent an email with the schedule to all the embroiderers I’m expecting in August. If you didn’t receive a personal email with the August schedule, it means I don’t know you want to come. Please get in touch right away. jhall@plimoth.org By the [...]]]></description>
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