Throwback Thursday - Future's Vision

I love the Throwback Thursdays that Mindy is doing over on her blog, and I happened to be reorganizing my finished pieces (again, more on that later).   As I was attempting to google some information on the designs, I (unsurprisingly, really) haven't found a whole lot on them.  I think that some are so old, any popularity they would have had pre-dated our social networking/blogging/camera-phone-picture-takin' days.   I was also thinking of the D.E.S.I.G.N. SAL's goal of introducing people to new designs and designers, and while these might be difficult (or maybe impossible) to find, it might be fun to learn about older designers and pieces or maybe designs/designers that are still available.

For me, it would give me a place for me to store my stories and thoughts about the designs that I haven't put in my spreadsheets or notebook (which has little more than just the dates I stitched on them, if that).   It also gives me a chance to blog these designs that I hadn't before.

So welcome to my first Throwback Thursday.   When organizing, I grabbed this piece first, it's probably one I will get framed shortly, as it's one of my favorites -  Future's Vision by Bestitched (designs by Beverly Haskins).

Future's Vision by Bestitched, designs by Bev
Stitched from 4.28.2003 - 11.17.2003
on 32 count antique white linen

Detail of the sky

I really like this script.

I love the poem by Tennyson and the look of the stained glass sky (that's what really sold me on this particular design).   Even though there was a lot of backstitching, it was fairly easy, and the design definitely popped as I was backstitching (it helps with the motivation).   It's not the biggest piece, so I had done all of the full crosses before BSing.   I wish I had the alphabet graphed out to use the script in other stitchery.

I started stitching this when I was living in Houston, but finished it off when I was living in Brownsville, when I didn't have much else to do.

Many times, when I see people stitching or posting about any of the Bestitched designs, they're the Medieval Miniatures (1 & 2 - I have both still to stitch), and I've seen a number of people who are under the impression that those designs were all that she produced.   She was based in central Texas (Austin or San Antonio?) and produced a lot of Texas designs (along with the Miniatures), I also have a Russian/Cyrillic sampler and remember seeing a medieval angel and some others.   Future's Vision was actually one I'd never seen and happened upon at a small cross stitch shop just outside of my grandmother's neighborhood before they closed in the 90s.

So this is the piece I'd like to frame next.   I am torn between letting someone here frame it (it's pretty small and easy) or just waiting to get it framed the next time I'm near Nick in Arizona ;)  (which, if I play my cards right could be in October!)