Last weekend I managed to finish this month’s cross-stitch for the Anthea Calendar, this is the SAL by Faby Reilly with a seasonal flower design for each month.
September’s was a delight to stitch, the flower is the autumn crocus, or colchicum, otherwise known as Naked Ladies as they flower before the leaves come up. I haven’t got any in the garden, probably because my friend and I never manage to get to the autumn flower show in Harrogate and I can imagine there’s a few sold there.
Anyway, the design was stitched with I think about five shades of purple, ranging from a dark royal purple to almost white, they blended together beautifully. I stitched it on a soft purple linen from Permin, it works really well.
As usual the back-stitching and the embellishments make the design, this one has green and gold rice-stitch round the edge broken up with purple spider web stitches. A few tiny gold beads for stamens finishes the design.
I need to stitch the back-stitched edge round still which I will use to stitch the pages together. Having stitched round all the other pages last month I want to keep up with it. All I need to do then is the wordplay for September but I usually wait until a bit nearer the end of the month for that. Just three months to go…
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What pretty blooms!
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Beautiful. I look forward to the wordplay, too.
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so pretty!
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Very lovely. And despite everything the year seems to have gone fast now!
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That is lovely!
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Hello Margaret, This is beautiful, they’ve all been good, Faby is a brilliant designer. You must have enjoyed this stitch. Love Mandy xx
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Thanks Mandy, it was lovely to stitch, not so many colour changes đŸ™‚
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What a pretty piece! I love the colours in this too.
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Purple is my favourite colour and this is gorgeous.
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Snap! not that you’d know from my wardrobe and my purple sewing room đŸ˜‰
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