My friend DD sent me this quote, which I love, love, love, love, love!Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859
Keep 'em coming, people!
Today's UFO is Alpine Garden by Drawn Thread. I started it for a friend's wedding, sometime in the late 90s. However, I couldn't finish in the one year period, so I sent a pine needle bowl, which she loved. There is a major mistake in that square on the bottom, which has prevented me from picking it up again.
4 comments:
I'm enjoying your UFO series.
This is such a lovely piece, I hope you get back to it some day.
Gorgeous pattern!!
And, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a whole chapter "V. Hester at Her Needle" in the Scarlet Letter.
quote: "Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle."
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