When I was a girl, the levels in Primary for girls were called Larks, Bluebirds, and Seagulls. You had certain tasks you had to accomplish at each level also.
One of them was to embroider this sampler. If it was 1955, I was 10, so I suspect this was maybe a Bluebird assignment - since Larks were 9, Bluebirds were 10, and Seagulls were 11.I spent a summer completing it. I did lots of the work while sitting up the discarded treehouse that my brother Lyn and the neighbor boy Freddy Vergine had built. Then they built a better one and gave it over to us younger kids.
I have never been a real star at embroidery. I don't do it often now - mostly just doll faces in fact. I'm not sure why I chose those colors either. I suspect someone gave me the thread. This one is attractive by virtue of being pressed and mounted and framed - and vintage!
But the message certainly does have merit!
