The month of May is dwindling down. This year "May" has become a synonym for the words "rain" and "cold". There was exactly one day when I could sit in my garden and read. But I don't complain - it's much better this way than having a heat wave and not being able to sit in the garden because it's too hot, lol. And as you can see in my header, the flowers and plants are blooming anyway. So I sit near the terrace door inside when I read and look out into the garden from time to time.
I thought it would be good to write another blog post in May as I have some new finishes to show. The first is the Abigail Gould sampler that I have stitched in Nicola's Scarlet Letter SAL. It's my very first Scarlet Letter sampler and I stitched it with the recommended colours, I just used DMC threads instead of silks. And it even has one of my favourite colours, DMC 356 terracotta red, you see it in the border, the fruit and one of the birds is stitched with it. And as I didn't want to stitch the background - I don't like all that filling in - I chose a fabric colour similar to the thread colour which would have been used for the filling stitches. Stitching this design was fun from the beginning to the end.
Abigail Gould Sampler by The Scarlet Letter
stitched on Zweigart Belfast creme 32ct with DMC
My second finish is a small design that I finished stitching last week during the IHSW, and this morning I made it into a little pillow. I love making these pillows, and this time I sewed the corners of the stitched plate onto the pillow and decorated it with four small buttons. My husband took the pictures early this afternoon while the sun was peaking out of the clouds.
Cottage Garden by Country Cottage Needleworks
in Just Cross Stitch August 2006
stitched with threads from my stash (Anchor, DMC, Vikki Clayton silks)
This little pillow will be a small gift for a friend but I know that I will have to stitch it again because I want to put it into my own pillow basket.
My son and I are huge Springsteen fans and last year when my son discovered that there would be another concert this year he immediately bought two tickets. Would he have bought them if he had known what the weather was like last Sunday? Of course, he would have. Well, what was the weather like? It was cold, just 5°C / 41°F and it was pouring cats and dogs all the time before the concert, during the concert and after the concert on our way home. Did we mind? No. Fortunately our seats were under the stadium roof which kept the rain away, but not the cold wind.Although we had brought warm clothes we were so cold before the concert began, but when it started there was no more time for being cold - Bruce Springsteen's music is like electrifying and we were dancing and singing and screaming and applauding for three hours, three solid hours without a single break An absolutely fantastic three hours. And we were enjoying every single minute of it.
That's about it from here. Keep warm and don't forget to take your umbrella before going out of the house, lol.
Happy Stitching to all of you!