Noble & True Choose Joy This little sampler was inspired

This little sampler was inspired by a 220 year old large sampler in our collection that was stitched by Mercy Stainton and is filled with garden motifs—trees

backstitch

but with a hopeful twist

We are a better people than we know

Noble & True Choose Joy This little sampler was inspiredRecently, I was reading Katherine Lee Bates poem America the Beautiful and was struck by the third stanza, which speaks of heroes and nobleness. That lead me to think about all of the heroes in my own life (both known and unknown), all the people who gave up their time, talents, and treasure to see me flourish. We may, at times, lose sight of it, but we really are a nation of the Noble & Truea people who see nobility in giving of ourselves to lift up