A Bluestocking Knits

I had a hankering for some blackwork, so here is the beginning of an original sampler, in that beautiful Gloriana silk in "Rosewood".  I bought an antique frame on Ebay a few years ago that turned out not to fit my "Virtue Outshines the Stars," so am suiting this one to the frame!

This band went surprisingly quickly, once I realized that breaking it down into vertical components, not horizontal ones, was key to working out the stitching line.  It looks surprisingly modern to my eye, but is in fact from Louisa Pesel's book of historical sampler motifs.