Sewing Chronicles of Lady Lizbeth Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maid - Meet That Rascal William Sainsbury

 Oh William Sainsbury, you rascal you!


It's all Sweet Will's fault that Liz ended up temporarily trapped in Tudor times.


He seemed so cute when she'd first met him back at the local Elizabethan Springe Flinge. And then, when he suggested a meet-up on her trip to London, well.... after all they'd been Facebook friends for over a year. It wasn't like she didn't know anything about him.


Wrong!


Will had plans for Liz, and they didn't just involve a quick kiss at the pub door. You see, Will's got needs - no not THOSE kinds of needs. His involved getting back home, and the pathway home just isn't as easy to follow as you might think. He needed a little help. And Liz was just the kind of help he needed.


So now Liz has got her needle buried in more blackwork embroidery than she ever dreamed about. 


And she's blogging the old-fashioned way.


(Co-Published with A Stitche In Time)

Part 5: Listen In- The Sewing Chronicles of Lady Lizbeth:The Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maid – Podcast, Part 1

Time to listen in on the latest Unpolished Performances podcast!

The Sewing Chronicles of Lady Lizbeth:The Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maide (Part 1)

Download this audio show directly from the iTunes store with this link (or search the iTunes store using the term 'unpolished performances') 

You can also listen to this show from your computer by following this link http://web.me.com/simpleromantic/Simple_Romantic/Podcast/Podcast.html

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Show Scoop: Our American blogger, Liz, is looking forward to a summer in London, sewing, sightseeing, practicing Bartok on the piano, and developing some great new historical and modern fashion content for her sewing blog.

It’s always a challenge keeping your online journal going when you’re on a trip, but Liz hadn’t counted on that trip extending back to the England of Queen Elzabeth the First.

Does anybody know if there’s a widget for blogging access that remote?

THERE HAVE been regular hints about, and excerpts from, this story in The Simple Romantic’s Art Journal for a few months now. I’m particularly partial to the “pithy sayings” that Lady Margaret Hoby, Lady LIzbeth’s mentor in past times, has been dropping like little time travel pearls amongst my illustrations.

The Podcast includes the full introduction to this story. As this serial short continues to emerge from the pages of The Simple Romantic An Art Journal, you can continue to follow it’s development (and that’s even easier if you signup for a free/no spam email subscription – look up in the upper right hand corner of the blog)

Though portions of the story are available in the online journal, the entire introduction is only available as part of this audio podcast, which also include some of my own background music performances. 

Romancing England: Fields and Flowers

Please click on the illustration above,

To enjoy more of the detail of this goode and honeste English flower

As ye set the designe that your needle may follow,

Neglect not the common wayside flowers,

Borage, cowslip and Queen Anne's Lace,

And most particularly our goode English Days-Eye.

An honest flower she is,

Bright gay, with sunny face,

Full open-petaled and easy to stitch

And naught of the French about her!

Pithy Sayings of Lady Margaret Hoby 

from The Sewing Chronicles of Lady Liz, 
The Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maid

Romancing England: Fields and Flowers, Borage

Please click on the illustration above
to enjoy the full beauty of this gentle English herb
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A stirrup-cup speeds the departing guest,

Who tarries overlong at thy door,

When the mistress of the house has much to think on,

And wishes them well away.

To hurry them hence,

Take a handfull of fresh borage leaf,

And grind it well beneath thy pestle,

Chop it well and do mix it 

with thy husband's least-favored wine,

Then may ye hope not to see them again too soon.

Pithy Sayings of Lady Margaret Hoby 

from The Sewing Chronicles of Lady Liz, 
The Secret Diary of a Time Traveling Maid

Sewing: Cliff Rose Dreamin' Quilt (Lady Lizbeth's Sewing Chronicles)

~~More from "Lady Lizbeth's Sewin' Chronicles~
  The Pithy Sayings of Lady Margaret Hoby"

The comfort of mankind, should be your aim.~ Towards gentle folk, of course, should your product be directed, as they are fitted by a higher power to receive that which you sew.~ Very occasionally, however, the deserving poor might also be worthy of your gifts.

Please click on the illustration below to better enjoy the details of Lady Lizbeth's Cliff-Rose Dreamin' Quilt