This past week has been a mixture of a week - not too busy at work but quite busy at home. My "little brother" came to see us and we all enjoyed a good time of talking and catching up on each others news.
I bought a copy of The Troubled Man ( Henning Mankell) and got so engrossed in reading that some nights my bedside lamp was on quite late!
However this past week I have made good progress on The Historic Countries Sampler and tonight will hopefully finish the Italian section. This is certainly a large piece - and now that I am working in the last corner there does seem to be a lot of fabric to keep out of the way while I stitch!
Apart from reaching the conclusion that I do not particularly care for Assissi work, this section has been quite fun to stitch - apart from the alphabet! That I did NOT enjoy.
For the final country I am closer to home - Australia - and look forward to reading the notes that accompany that chart.
Vera, you asked where this chart came from. The Historic Countries Mystery Sampler was a 12 part mystery sampler which was published from September 2007 to August 2008 in The Gift of Stitching. Their website is
here and you can contact them directly - the have back copies of the magazines and a kit of the whole sampler.
Hope you have all had a good weekend - unspoilt by the heavy rain and gales that came our way! Talk to you again soon - hopefully to report a happy dance!
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4 comments:
Looking good. And only Australia to finish it. :)
So close to the end! It must be hard to put it down at this point. I know I'd be stitching frantically trying to finish it off. :)
I thought I'd read everything written by Henning Mankell but I've obviously missed out on this one. I find his books very addictive. Thanks for mentioning this latest one.
The Assissi work looks great when finished - I know it's not fun to stitch but it's worth it. The bargello area looks really good too - I love the end result of that but not the actual stitching.
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