Sunday, 12 August
I’ve been wanting to finish up the posts featuring my cross-stitch projects, so now I have an incentive. Mui has started packing up things that are not essential to daily life. That includes the few pieces of my embroidery that I opted to bring to the condo after we sold the townhome in May 2011. It’s time for these pieces to join the ones that were packed at that time.
There’s something about this café scene that screams Paris to me. But the sign on the shop says The Old Coffee Shop. Perhaps when this piece is unpacked again someday I will see the setting in another country.
And a few close ups for detail …
Feel the warm breeze wafting sweet scented honeysuckle, café au lait and beignets? It’s New Orleans, and it’s just magnificent.
ReplyDeleteSo that's where the French ambiance is coming from. Another mystery solved.
DeleteBeautiful work!!! I used to cross stitch so understand the time and talent this picture took. I've been into quilting lately, but maybe I'll have to get one of those cross stitch projects I still have squirreled away out, and go back to a favorite former hobby.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a relaxing hobby ... perhaps I too will return to it someday ... but for now, new interests and travel have supplanted this pastime.
Deletebeautiful work Erin...as you know I do cross stitch as well..and I so understand all the time and work that has gone into this piece..too bad you have to pack it away!
ReplyDeleteSomeday, it will be unpacked and I will enjoy seeing it on the wall again. In the meantime, it's the price we have to pay for living in a condo on wheels :-))
DeleteBeautiful! Perhaps someday you'll incorporate it into your travels.
ReplyDeleteSuper work Erin. I used to do tons of needlepoint and crewel embroidery years ago. It is so relaxing to do that type of work. One day I will get back to it.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you ever miss a stitch - simply beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIf only that were true :-)))
DeleteWhat a gorgeous scene and intricate work. My mother used to do a lot of cross stitch, but the most I ever did was little Christmas ornaments. I would hate to pack it away.
ReplyDeleteThis is just beautiful Erin. So detailed. I can only imagine how much time it must have taken. Hope you will find a spot on the walls of the Phaeton to put one or two of these beauties. I know there are lots of ways to hang things.
ReplyDeleteI love it! The color, the texture. Beautiful! I am hungry for this!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your exquisite cross-stitch work. You have inspired me to pull out the much smaller projects I have packed away in the motorhome.
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