July 2, 2025
This card was one of the emboidery lessons in a Zen Stitching class that Gail and I took part in. As soon as I saw the pattern I knew it would be going as a card for Elizabeth.
Elizabeth had a lot of family changes between her last birthday and this one. Perhaps this year will be a bit less hectic.
I wonder if Elizabeth knows I have an entire bin full of daisy fabric just meant for her.
Gail and I chose to do some embroidery in our weekly sessions. I didn’t have any embroidery I was working on so I had to pick something new. When I went looking for a pattern I found this one that was part of a calendar sampler I downloaded (for free) in 2012.
It didn’t take long to do the embroidery as outlined in the pattern but I wasn’t pleased with the outcome so I started adding a few bits of design on my own and I like it better. I wasn’t sure what I would do with it. Gail and I discussed doing a single wall hanging with something for the four seasons but I decided I’d do small hangings that could be switched out as the seasons change.
This will be my Winter hanging but it will be put away for several months before I dig it out again.
I had my doubts about this one from the very beginning. The cutting called for 3/4″ pieces by 2.5″ at the longest. It wasn’t until I was sewing the bits together that I realized that each of the 24 blocks had 13 pieces; for the record that is a total of 312 pieces not counting the borders. That is a lot of pieces for a 12″ x 12.5″ project.
But this was my June project for sewing with Stacia and Deloise and I didn’t see any point in putting it off – those pieces weren’t going to get any bigger. Our schedule was for just one day of sewing together but I had to take another full day to get this done.
Now that it is done and hung it might be one of my favourite patterns from the book.
Author: Mankell, Henning
I’ve read a lot of books by this author and I have enjoyed every one of the Wallender mysteries. In this book he refers to things that happened in the past ; all the references were familiar so I must have read about them in previous books in the series.
This one is a computer thriller. Within a few hours two people are found dead. In one case the guilty parties have confessed and in the other case it appears the death was from natural causes. But as the story unflolds we find that the two cases are linked and it takes Wallender the whole book to see how.
Goodreads Rating: * * * *