I do not like stitching letters. Or numbers. But that is what I've done today.
The verse on Ann Kemp is finally complete. I didn't think that was ever going to happen.
And I'm working on the letters and numbers on Carmen's central cartouche. I had to stop tonight because my eyes were tired of stitching off-white letters on off-white fabric--46 count fabric at that. It will be beautiful when it's done. And I really hope it's done in the next day or so.
I have a friend who loves, loves, LOVES stitching Bristol samplers. She keeps telling me that letters are just motifs and if I treat them that way, I'll enjoy doing them.
Nope. I can delude myself about a lot of things when it comes to needlework, but this isn't one of them.
And then I heard someone talking about the reason she always works her samplers from the bottom up. The fun stuff is the bottom, so if you start there, you start with the fun stuff. Then you have the boring stuff like alphabets at the top.
If I stitched from bottom up, the top would never be done.
This is most definitely a first world problem, but the fact remains, I strongly dislike stitching alphabets.
I can’t imagine stitching from bottom to top. On my current sampler Sarah Milthorp I skipped all around to get the over one verse (complete with eyelets over 2 for the capital letters), the border and the cartouche with a million tiny leaves done before I did the fun stuff.
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