Maybe some of you remember that I started drawing and stitching an Austrian Spot Sampler.
I think it's about five years ago that I started with this project. I wanted to create a sampler by myself which is influenced by the traditional stitching style in our region but I wanted to create all the spots by myself so that it will become my special sampler.
At the beginning I really thought that will become much more easier to be satisfied with the result. So I drew and stitched and drew again ..........and again. Some of my friends say I'm too much a perfectionist, that's my fault but I can't work without being 100% satisfied. So sometimes I put this project away and thought I never will continue working on it.
But finally I finished the drawing and charted it and now I want to finish it without interruption. There is meeting of a craft assocation in autumn and for this I want to finish it, to frame it and maybe to show it when I'll like.
I'm telling you that, because maybe I'll not post very much the next time and I really hope I'll reach this goal. So please wish me luck and maybe I'll get some comments from time to time, because without contact to my stitching friends, the stitching is only half the fun :-)!!
Not much stitching at the moment!! The weather is really too lovely and the sun is shining too bright so I really want to spend the most of my free time outside on the lake or in the garden !!
But I want to make an inventory of my stitching smalls I stitched and I got in exchanges. I really have a great preference for stitching smalls, and after I showed you my pin cushion collection http://romyaustria.over-blog.com/article-6757986.html here's my needle case collection so far!
Hope everybody has the same wonderful summer and enjoys it!!!
This weekend I found some time to finish the summer sampler by Chessie & Me. It really was a fun and fast stitching. I like the look of over two, over one and specialty stitches like French Knotes, Satin Stitches, Four Sided Stitches and some more. It's stitched on 32 count linen with DMC and Old Willow Design Threads.
Now I have to decied what to stitch next. I'm really in the mood to start another little house. Let's see ??!!
Here are some close ups of the summe house!
Now it's summer time and I thought it would be nice to start a little summer stitching. I choose the Summer Sampler by Chessie&Me. It's a nice and funny stitching. Most of the design is stitched in cross stitch and smyrna cross stitch. There are little parts of satin stitch and one over one cross stitch. So there is everything I like on a design.
Maybe you are familir with this, the design calls for some speciality threads and I have tons of silk and overdied threads but never the threads the deisgn calls for.
First I thought I have to order the threads, but when I looked through my stash I found some Old Willow Stitcher Threads which I really liked for this Summer House. My Summer Sampler now will look quite different, but I'm really pleased how it comes along. Here's my progress so far:
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