The 4 my mum embroidered were a set of seasonal ones. I have made them separately (they were in one quilt according to the pattern) so as to be able to hang them according to their season in the foyer of my home. At the beginning of the year I decided I would make 12, one for each month to hang in the foyer. Pam on Hip to be a Square did somet thing along this line. However as a family (and generally as a society) Australians don't widely celebrate some of the "days" that are so widely celebrate in the US. We know about Valentines Day, St Paddy's day, and Halloween and some people do celebrate them but they aren't nearly as big a thing here. I would prefer to put emphasis on things that are more important to us as a family and as Australians. These seasonal ones are more appropriate (although living in Central Queensland, on the Tropic of Capricorn we don't really get very distinctive seasons anyway)
Winter: I used the red and green border around winter cause it matched the picture better. Its NOT Christmas! That's in summer for us) |
Summer:The yellow is for the sand and the hot summer sun |
Autumn. Used the green and yellow hsts because I had them and they went with the picture.... |
Spring. Loved the purple hst that I had heaps of and they went so well with the embroidery |
Here they are all together. Aren't they gorgeous |
The Outhouse. Embroidered by me |
Well I'm impressed by 5 finishes! My productivity has slowed to such a rate I'm wondering if threading a needle will count as a finish!
ReplyDeleteMum did a nice job on the embroideries.
Those are just so adorable! Gives me an itch to stitch!
ReplyDeleteI love your little seasonals, they're so adorable! I couldn't tell which one was done by you! And your outhouse is really cute, it reminds me of my favorite type of house, a log cabin. Well done for finishing it all this week, even though they were started already!
ReplyDeleteThese are so adorable!
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