First I want to apologize to all my friends and followers for not posting in over two weeks. Life and work have gotten in the way of keeping everyone up to date on any finishes and works in progress.
As mentioned in my profile, I am a software consultant for a company based in Dallas, Texas. One of the the projects that I am currently working on has me traveling to Stockholm, Sweden about once a month. I have not been traveling since December of last year so it has been a nice break.
Here are a couple of pictures from one of my favorite cities -- Stockholm (excuse the quality - just have my camera phone this trip).
These are taken by the Royal Palace looking east and west at a couple of the any bridges of Stockholm. The one to the right is the overflow from the lake into the bay (see all the chunks of ice from the frozen lake!). The one to the left show a portion of the Royal Palace, the National Museum, and some buildings located on the island of Skeppsholmen.
This past weekend, I attended an Amy Mitten Mystery Sampler class as a part of our local sampler guild. It was a lot of fun and the sampler that she created in honor of our guild's 10th Anniversary is really neat. I can hardly wait to show you a picture of this neat piece.
I have put Rhoda Hastings aside for a little bit. There is not much left to go on her but decided I wanted to work on something else while traveling.
So my traveling companion this trip is Aeltie Claes 1673 by Essamplaire. (Again I apologize for the quality of the photo). I changed the fabric from that provided in the kit. This has a lot of areas done in white silk and you could not see it on the light color fabric.
Aeltie Claes 1673 by Essamplaire
40-ct Lakeside Examplar using Soie de Paris silks provided in the kit
I really like the early Dutch samplers. I think it is the geometric bands on the side that really are fun to work. All the different colors. This one is unique in that it only uses 7 colors – Red, Blue, Green, Brown. White, Maroon, and Gold.
As always, thank you for visiting my blog. I promise to do better at updating even if it is to show you some of the places that I get to visit.
Comments
Your stitching is always amazing to see.
I so enjoyed our visit and hope that we can meet up over here. We are still under a layer of snow ( again) and I am ready for winter to bid adieu. Hope everything goes well on this trip.
I will be back in TX in June for an EGA thing, and hope we can arrange a get together then as well. Take care, Sylvia
Your new sampler is lovely and with just a few colors too.
Have fun traveling!
Happy Stitching!
As usual, you are stitching away on something big that will be done in no time at all!! Looks like you have a lot done on the Essamplaire piece already. Can't wait to see it finished. :) Hope to see you at the next guild meeting.
Gloria
Don't you love Amy Mitten? I love her floss too! I haven't seen Aeltie before. Your sampler is going to be fabulous! After looking through some of your posts, I can see you don't go for the easy stuff!
i cannot wait to share with my hubby and my brother who just
learned to knit....
look forward to your future posts
the travel pics are fun too
thanks for sharing
corinna