A Message from Loretta with Mystery 13

Loretta's Kit Mailing Announcement

It has become clear to me that Loretta originally intended her mysteries to be sent out a lesson at a time with the thread and other supplies kit sent along with the first lesson.  I've seen several kits now with a series of 4-5 lessons stapled together separately that appear to have been mailed to their owners separately.  Each lesson has a little sticker holding the pages closed at the top which the owner is supposed to break when it is time to work the next part of the mystery.  I found this note (above) on a small slip of green paper included with mystery #13 "Superstition" from Loretta explaining that due to requests from stitchers, she is sending everything at once so that folks don't miss out due to their summer vacations.

Sadly, Loretta only designed and sold one more mystery after this, and I don't know if it was shipped all together or not.  Still, it is obvious Loretta listened to her students and customers, and adjusted plans to please them.

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Mystery #13 "Superstition"

Mystery #13 - "Superstition" This delicate design finished is 5 x 5 inches. It is stitched on white congress cloth (8 x 8) using peach, aqua, and creme overdyed silk.   The threads are Waterlilies, 3 colors - Flamingo, Crystal Bay and Opal, and a clear shade of Opalescent. There are clear petite Mill Hill beads in the border and at the points of the open diamond shapes in the center diamond shapes.  The design includes Hilton style diamond Jessicas, Rice Stitches and pulled thread areas. The copyright for this piece was dated 1999.

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Materials List:

white Congress cloth 8x8
Waterlilies "Flamingo" 095- one skein silk floss pink
Waterlilies "Crystal Bay" 127- one skein silk floss mint green
Waterlilies "Opal" 118 - one skein silk floss white with touches of pink
Opalescent #300 - one skein fine metallic clear with touches of pink
Mill Hill Petite Beads #40161 (clear round size 11/0 beads)

Superstition, Courtesy of Terry

Pierette has posted photographs of Superstition on her blog which is interesting to compare to Terry's version above.  There are a lot of photographs that show the piece as it developed at this link, with the final framed photograph at the top and bottom of this blog entry.
http://mystitchinggallery.blogspot.com/2010/01/superstition-loretta-spears-designer.html

UPDATE:  Pierette framed her Superstition.  You can see it and read a bit about it here on Facebook's Needlepoint Nation.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NeedlepointNation/permalink/5981305278613247/?comment_id=5983202411756867&reply_comment_id=5983227761754332

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=619550806868897&set=gm.6102640709813036&idorvanity=108537025890131

Here is Terry's original posting about her version, which was made into a sachet.
http://through-the-hoop.blogspot.com/2009/08/loretta-spears-mystery-13-superstition.html