Thursday, November 24, 2016

Thankful

Thankful for stitching. Thankful for you. Thankful for a sister who, when I said I didn't feel like cooking, ordered a precooked meal. Thankful for two nieces who love dinosaurs and want to be pirates. Thankful for my pooch. Thankful for the dude. Thankful.

Here's what I worked on last night, instead of preparing a huge dinner.

This is Liz Turner Diehl's 16th Century Knot Garden. It is stitched on a piece of evenweave with the kitted Madiera threads. I started in nearly ten years ago. And the last time I stitched on it was in 2012!?!? Can that be? I added the purple flowers and a bit of green (see the closeups).

Going to spend more time stitching thankfully.




8 comments:

Stitchinowl said...

What a nice sister! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, and give a special hug to Stella.
Carolyn

Linda said...

Pretty design Nikki. You have a great sister and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

Linda

Robin in Virginia said...

It sounded like a great way to spend the day. What a pretty piece you worked on!

Beth W said...

Well, this is utterly charming! I've never seen a cross-stitch English garden but it's instantly visibly recognizable. You do find the coolest patterns. :D

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

Glad that you've dug this one out again. (Garden - dig, geddit?)
Thanks for the link back too. Did you ever visit the home of the disinfected needlework junk?

Karen said...

Very pretty! I have one of her gardens somewhere.... It was a class piece from a needlework festival. This makes me think I need to go upstairs and find it.

Bea said...

But it's a beautiful piece! You can't neglect it like that. And what a terrific sister.

Julie said...

Nice Knot Garden, I stitched one of her designs, the chart had oodles of pages to refer to.