Happy Dancing

It is finished! I put the last "TA-DA" stitches in the birth sampler last night. My DDIL wanted "cars and trucks and stuff" for her second son and so I found what I could (thank you Jo Verso) and created my own design (for the truck on the bottom) when I couldn't find one that fit and I liked.

I'm sorry about the oval cropping, but the photo program on this computer does it that way. BTW, the right side is not torn...it's just the sunlight from the window in my room. The piece is stitched in DMC on 28ct evenweave with bits of Kreinik braid (black for the coal, and silver for bumpers, grills, etc). The Taxi is an adaptaion of a Mercedes (I think) car, and as I said, the truck is my own contraption. The stripe on the truck is stitched in rice stitch (over 4) with an ombre thread which gives it a modern flow.

Now I can comfortably get back to stitching the Bear Christmas stocking for one of the granddaughters! More on that in a few days.

Grandma

Taxi!

Here is another of my adaptations of Jo Verso's designs...originally the larger auto was just that...a car. Now it is a yellow checkered Taxi. I am loving this piece...finally redesigning a piece of stitching.

The bottom motif I originally had in mind was a ship, but it is not in the same style as the other motifs, so I am now rethinking it. Perhaps a tractor trailer truck would fit better. We'll see this weekend.

Grandma

Happy New Year

Well, here it is, the start of a new, and hopefully better (economically) year.
Work continues on the Birth Sampler. I have added the coal tender and put coal in it with some Kreinik black braid...makes it a little shiny like real coal. The month is done, of course as I needed that for the placement of the Red Car which also has a bit of glitz with silver braid bumpers. Next comes the taxi cab...should be stitched this afternoon watching the Rose Bowl.


More photos to come................Grandma