Trying to track down my great-grandmother's needlepoint pattern: Hiawatha Heirloom rose bouquet (Preworked "Super Canvas")
Hi all! I'm hoping this community can help me with a little family detective project.
My great-grandmother stitched this rose bouquet back in the 1970s, in Baltimore, MD. I've recently fallen in love with it and would love to find the original canvas — partly out of curiosity, and partly because I'd love to attempt it myself someday and feel a little connected to her while I do.
I've gotten as far as speculating the brand: it appears to be a Hiawatha Heirloom "Lady Handicraft" preworked needlepoint, English-made, with "SUPER CANVAS" printed along the canvas margin (you can see it in one of my photos). It's that classic preworked style, the rose bouquet center came pre-stitched in fine petit point, and it seems that she filled in the deep wine-colored background herself by hand.
The bouquet is a soft mix of pink-to-burgundy roses, a little dark red and peach, dusty greens, with tiny goldenrod accents. I know Hiawatha made a whole series of these floral centers, each with its own design number (I've found No. 257/3, but that's a different bouquet than hers).
Does anyone happen to recognize this particular one, or have an old Hiawatha catalog or tag that might point me to the design number? I know it's a long shot after all these years, but even a number to search by would mean a lot!