Cover photo: Book 49, Midsummer Roses. A friend started stitching this piece, but knew she wouldn’t get around to finishing it, so she mailed it to me. Stitched mostly by me and framed at Hobby Lobby.
This post includes the designs featured in books 41-50 of Paula Vaughan’s cross-stitch designs. To see the rest of her work, and to read my hints for finding these out-of-print patterns, please visit my main Paula Vaughan post.
To change the skin or hair color of the people featured in some of these designs, search for skin tone charts online. (If you find one that is especially helpful, please let me know!) You’ll need several shades to take advantage of the highlights and shadows. If a design includes a mirror, check the reflection and update the person there as well.
Book 41: Spring Remembered Part II. This outdoor scene features a wooden rocking chair in front of a white wooden fence with the gate opened. Pink and yellow irises grow in front of the fence, and pink roses grow behind the fence. A blue bonnet rests one a fence post. The rocking chair holds a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt, and a sewing basket sits on the ground beside the chair. Published in 1991.
Book 42: Paula Vaughan’s Sweet Violets. This book includes 14 designs. The small clusters of violets are numbered #1 through #11, and are shown as jar lids on the front and covers, and on a napkin, sachets, and a premade hand mirror on the back cover. Bouquet is shown as a pillow on the front cover, and on the back cover, is stitched onto a sweater using waste canvas. Border is stitched onto an Anne Cloth afghan on the front cover, and onto a premade pillowcase on the back cover. Violets To Greet You is framed on the front cover. Violet #9 is a slightly larger cluster of violets and is shown as the lace-edged rectangle pillow in the lower photo on the back cover. Violet #11 is a wider cluster, and is shown on the “bolster” pillow on the front cover and on a towel on the back cover. Published in 1991.
Book 43: Sonnets of Love. This design features a basket filled with flowers, including pink roses and yellow daffodils. A book, presumably a poetry book, leans against the basket. An inkwell, a pen, and several sheets of paper show that a letter is in the process of being written, while a framed black-and-white photograph of a couple sits nearby. A teacup and saucer plus a few loose rose stems complete the scene. Published in 1991.
Book 44: Because of Spring. This book contains five designs. Wheelbarrow is shown in the oval frame on the front cover and in a rectangular frame on the back cover. Flower Box features a rectangle wooden box, and is framed with a pink mat on the front cover, and is the third design on the bell pull. Geraniums has a terra cotta pot with geraniums, an empty pot, and a trowel. It’s the first design on the bell pull, and in the pink mat frame and the small pillow on the back cover. Watering Can is the second design in the bell pull and the small pillow on the wreath on the front cover, and framed on the back cover. Spring Garden features tulips, daffodils, violets, flower pots, a rake, a trowel, and a fence. It’s shown in a frame with a green mat on the front cover, and in the oval frame on the back cover. Published in 1991.
Book 45: Summer Breeze. This design is also called Summer Comes Calling in the compilation book The Romance of Paula Vaughan. It features a white wooden swing hanging from a large tree. A flower basket quilt is draped over the swing. Irises, yellow roses, red roses, and white roses grow along a path, and a blue bucket holds what I assume are geraniums. Behind the swing, a woman is carrying a basket with flowers in it. A large two-story house stands in the background. Published in 1991.
Book 46: Waste Canvas Designs From Paula’s Closet. This book includes 14 designs, intended to be stitched using waste canvas. (Waste canvas is designed to be removed after the stitching is complete. You baste it onto your fabric, which could be normal woven fabric, a sweater, or almost any other fabric that you can get a needle through. After cross-stitching the design, you moisten the waste canvas, then use tweezers to pull the waste canvas threads out.) I’ve included a zoomed-in photo showing the designs stitched onto a sweater. However, these designs work just as well when stitched on normal cross-stitch fabric! These patterns include back-stitching.
The front cover features a sweater set with Rose Group (three roses) and Small Border #1 and #2, which are mirror images of each other. The inset photo, with the model wearing a hat, shows Flower Basket. The back cover includes Rose Group and Single Rose in the top photo, with Large Border on the hem of the cardigan and Small Border #1 or #2 on the sleeve’s hem. The photo to the left includes the seven flower designs that are numbered #1 through #7. The lower right photo features Birds. Published in 1992.
Book 47: Duplicate Stitch Designs From Paula’s Closet. This book includes the same designs as Book 46 above, but without back-stitching. (The only exception is that Small Border is just one design, not two mirrored designs like in the waste canvas book.) I included a zoomed-in photo of the duplicate stitch. It’s intended to be stitched along the “V” formed by knitting, so they look like they were knitted into the design but were actually embroidered on afterwards. The design names are the same as the waste canvas book, so you can scroll back up to see what they are. Published in 1992.
Book 48: From this Day Forward. This bride design shows a bride wearing her wedding dress, looking at her reflection in a large mirror. Her veil waits on the canopy bed beside her. Folding doors are open, allowing us to see a porch with ornate trim and flowers growing in pots and baskets. A basket holding roses sits on the floor beside the bride. Details include a fancy rug with roses, floral wallpaper, and a fireplace in the background. Published in 1992.
Book 49: Mid Summer Roses. In this design, a metal bucket holds several dozen roses in yellow, pink, and dark pink. The wall behind the bucket has a brass spigot and lattice. Violets grow around the bucket. A straw hat, decorated with roses and a blue ribbon, leans against the bucket. Published in 1992.
Book 50: Make Believe. This design features two young girls playing dress-up in old-fashioned dresses. A trunk holds a wedding dress and a veil. Through the window, you can see a porch and the bare limbs of a tree. Details around the room include pretty wallpaper with a rose vine scallop design, a chest of drawers with a lace-edged cloth peeking out of one drawer, a clock, a stack of books, a kerosene lamp, a hat box with a straw hat, a bundle of letters, a pair of shoes, an old phonograph (if that isn’t the correct term, please let me know in a comment and I’ll correct this), some empty picture frames, and an oval photo frame that seems to depict a bride. Published in 1992.
Happy stitching!
— Elizabeth
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