Last night I finished another page for my Anthea Calendar SAL book, this is the SAL by Faby Reilly, we get a new design each month of a seasonal flower. It can be stitched as one big picture with all twelve months on or as a dozen separate pictures…or it can be made into a book! I’m also stitching a wordplay page at the end of the month on what the month means to me and what I’ve been doing that month (I didn’t anticipate a lockdown when I thought of this plan!!)
Anyway, I’ve just finished June. It’s beautiful! It’s cornflowers, with their lovely intense blue. I did have a short delay as I didn’t have enough of one of the colours – typically any other shade I could have managed with a couple of lengths, but not the one I was short of – it is the main shade of blue, so I had to stitch as much as I could and then wait for the post.
There’s a lot of back-stitching this month to make the cornflower’s raggedy petals, in fact I think it’s probably the trickiest design so far – I really had to concentrate!
I love the way Faby incorporates different stitches into the designs, this month it’s spiders web stitch. I usually try to include different aspects of the design in the wordplay, so this month I’m thinking of one of the buds, some gold lines and stars, together with a couple of spiders webs as fillers, I’ll probably start it in a few days time..
We’re half way through this stitch-a-long, so here’s the first six months…
Don’t they look gorgeous 🙂
I’ll be linking up with Kathy’s Quilts on Sunday for Slow Stitching Sunday, so please follow the link for lots of stitching inspiration.
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Stunning!
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These look beautiful, Margaret. Cornflowers are one of my favourite flowers, and the blue is such an intense colour. This lovely design has captured the shape of them so well.
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It’s great to see the whole collection develop month by month!
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Wow- I love cornflowers, such a pretty flower.
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how beautiful! I really am not a great flower fan, but you seem to be stitching a little work of art each month, and the cornflower, especially, are so pretty!
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The cornflowers are beautiful and such a fabulous colour
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The group all together looks just amazing, Margaret. Beautiful job stitching these!
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Yea, they do look gorgeous!
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Yes, all your flowers are truly beautiful! Love the intense blue of the cornflowers. Another gorgeous embroidery.
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Cornflowers are my favourite wild flower. Your work is so beautiful.
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Absolutely gorgeous! I love the blues in the June block, but all of them are amazing!
Thanks for linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching!
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Oh! So pretty!
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Gorgeous stitching! I love seeing these all together!
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Your stitched blocks are all so beautiful, well done indeed!
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Oh my, I do love the June page. The blue color is just beautiful.
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Obviously a blue you really love if you’ve run out! It is rather lovely. They look great all grouped together, I almost wish I’d joined in! I hope there may be one next year. I have enough threads and evenweave to use up!
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Hi Amanda, the Anthea SAL is still available on Faby’s website, it’s only £10 for the year I think, if you stitched two a month you would be all caught up by the end 🙂
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I love June’s flower and how you stitched it so skillfully but love each month too! ❤ Thanks for sharing 🙂 Kathi
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Ohh, that’s a gorgeous work! I’m in loved with that cornflowers.
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