Edited to finally add pics. I found my camera!
This is the first piece I started when the divorce began. It was therapy for me, a project I'd wanted to do for ages: The Drawn Thread's Lily of the Valley. Linen and silk, don't you know. :) I loved working all the different stitches.'Kay. I'm trying to add more pictures, and Blogger is laughing at me....
Jenny made this for us as a wedding gift. The Ace of Cups, she adapted it herself. I kept it, cos, well, I just did. I was the only one who appreciated it. And I still do! :)
I had started this for a few reasons. One, Rainer loves ships. :) Two, it was kinda going to be a 5 year anniversary present for Tom. But, well, things change, and I liked it way to much to let it go away. I'm trying to remember the designer, but it's escaping me. The only thing I changed was to use Needle Necessities overdyed floss in Spruce for the sea, instead of solid DMC.
This is June's gift: Elemental Cosmos by Witches' Stitches. (They've gone out of business. I'm sad.) I was truly surprised when she told me she'd made it for me, and when she gave it to me at DexCon last year, I made sure everyone saw it. :)
Medieval Mermaid, by yet another company whose name has escaped me. :) I just liked this one, and it made a very good travel project, since it was one color of floss (Caron Waterlilies Polar Ice) and whole stitches. I also swapped the fabric (which was supposed to be a sand color - ick!) for Silkweaver Expressions Desert Sky. I'm very happy with the results.
Rainer's birth announcement. It's a Sue Hillis design that had a cutsie verse at the bottom, so I substituted his birth stats instead. There's a counting mistake in it that I can still see all these years later.... :)
