In my part of the world we say you are a fool if your passion for a pursuit overcomes all practical sense. I am a stitching fool, and I stitch foolishness.

Sunday, August 22, 2021

Sampler Sunday

When I was sorting out the projects by my chair, there were two samplers in the stack, and both of them have been in progress for years . . . maybe decades. I was afraid to look at the copyright dates. 

You may have noticed that I can get distracted easily, and for some reason, I can be distracted from big projects more easily than smaller ones. But, I think I can manage to work on a sampler one day a week.

The alliteration appealed to me, so Sampler Sunday it is.

Thus far this afternoon, I managed to get the stems and leaves on part of Rebecah French stitched.



I think I'm going to work on the flowers and buds after supper tonight. This is all surface work rather than counted, so I'm still dealing with a sharp needle and the potential for leaving DNA in the project. The box of Band-Aids is by the chair, just in case.

The plan for tomorrow and Tuesday is to work on the Tudor class motifs, then I'll decide how much of a schedule I want to set up for the rest of the week.

As any plans I've ever tried last about two weeks, we'll see how long this works out.


 

3 comments:

  1. Love your sampler it's beautiful.
    I have not done much stitching this weekend .
    We have both worked in the garden , we treated ourselves to some new plants.
    Have a good week .

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  2. Beautiful work! I have this one in my stash but have put it off so many times because I'm a little frightened of all that over one and freehand sort of things.

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    1. Just jump in--there really isn't that much over-one. Just keep in mind that the tracing diagram doesn't exactly match the stitched model in the directions. I'm winging it, and calling it an adaptation.
      Ann

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