It's finally Sunday - a day of rest, reflection, renewal, and slow stitching! Why not join us as we get out our hand stitching projects and put in a few relaxing stitches?I have been attending Midsummer Stitch which is a virtual event by Lindy Stitches. A whole weekend was set aside to stitch whatever I want! And what did I want to stitch? BIRDS!
First I stitched this little bird motif on "Room at the Table" by Proper Stitcher. So cute! I posted on my blog about the beginning of this project in April - click here to read more about it. I'm so close to finishing this one but wanted to work on other projects, so had to put it away for now.
Then I did finish a project! But not without some sweat and tears.
My outside border was not matching up, and I had already done some unstitching before I took this photo. I had to unstitch everything in the circle as evidently I had made a major counting error. You can see my new bird themed stitch ripper that I used, and one of my new wooden bird needleminders. There are 3 birds are in this photo!
Stitches were removed and new ones put in the correct places, and the borders did eventually meet.
This is Modern Folk Embroidery's Quaker Medallion: Bird in a Grapevine pattern with 1,845 cross stitches. The fabric is Roxy's 18 count Porcelain. The thread is a lovely variegated DMC #4515. It was so fun to play with the blue and brown thread. I tried to get mostly dark colours in the centre bird and think it turned out well. I might put it in a hoop frame to finish it.
What are you stitching today? Anyone out there also obsessed with birds?
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