Sampler Sunday resulted in one finished motif today.
Other than the straight stitches for the veins in the leaves, this is all worked in tent stitch or backstitch. And I made a major mistake--I decided to see how many stitches it takes to do a square inch.
1, 225.
That's a lot.
And there are forty-one more motifs on this sampler.
I'm glad I decided that this would take a couple of years to stitch if I work on it only on Sundays. It may take three years, but I'm trying to be optimistic.
I also worked on one of my Fourth projects, Clara 1876, during the past week:
I had several Zoom meetings this past week, and Clara was perfect stitching--lots of fill-in. I just wish she didn't look quite so confused.
Fingers are crossed that I can make some headway on Peony this week. I didn't have the bandwidth this week to focus on goldwork after the long, long trip home. I read somewhere that travel is tiring because you're constantly making micro-movements as you ride, whether in plane, train, or automobile. I must have been making some macro-movements as well as all the micro-movements. Or maybe I'm just getting old.
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