Here is my sad little sampler for the Take a Stitch Challenge
I have been a very lazy embroiderer recently. I joined this challenge back in January, but I had never given myself the time to sit down and actually play with the stitches. I finaly decided today that I had to put everything else aside and catch up on this. I have a stash of even weave linnen tea towels that I decided to use. I got one out for me and one for my son. They were great for freehand work, but terrible for counted work. The weave wasn’t even enough. I had just about decided to finish this week’s stitch and then pick up next week on some adia that I had in my craft closet, when the fly stich caught my imagination.
I rushed to the closet and busted out with the adia and started experamenting. I came up with two different versions of a flower that I think are stunning.

I had been atempting to make a fractal snowflake pattern thinking it would be a great way to cover the fabric completely, but I came up with these instead. They work great all by themselves or as a border.
My son decided he didn’t want to follow the stitches in the challenge, so he drew his own pattern and went to town embroidering it. He says he wants to make a pillow out of it when he is done.
February 25, 2007 at 10:51 am
The snowflake is cool–I think it would make a great all-over pattern–I love your son’s design too.
February 26, 2007 at 11:24 am
That snowflake is really cute! Your son isn’t doing to bad either…you must be a good teacher.
February 26, 2007 at 8:05 pm
i agree with amy and lucy, i love the patterns you made and the snowflake is darling, your son is doing great, how old is he, he must take after his mummy to do such good work for a child,. designing is awesome experinmentation and i know how much you love that too thanks for stopping by my blog and the nice comments 😀
March 1, 2007 at 4:00 am
I really like what you have done with the fly stitch. It is awesome that your son is stitching too and also spinning wool. How fun this must be for you and him.
March 2, 2007 at 5:25 am
Excellent work both of you! The snowflake is so cool and I love the creativity of your son.