I’ve finally managed to catch up with my phenology wheel, this is a group challenge from my stitch group, Skipton Stitchers. I was behind before I went on holiday over for six weeks having decide to do rather a lot of French knots for February! Three weeks ago I’d just finished March…

I made a concerted effort to catch up, I stitched brunnera Jack Frost for April, this was the first brunnera I grew, I love it, it has intense blue flowers, a bit like forget-me-nots, but they flower in spring, have variegated foliage and they’re perennials…and they’re happy in clay soil! It was yet more French knots!!

For May I chose to stitch paeonies, I missed most of them this year with being away. I just used woven wheel stitch with a variegated thread. I kept it fairly loose so it’s actually quite proud of the background.

When we came back from our big adventure in mid June, the garden was full of foxgloves. I embroidered these with straight stitch and a few French knots at the top. July is rose month, I used a variegated peach thread with bullion knots round a central French knot. Here’s the phenology wheel so far…

I’m planning to do clematis for August and echinacea for September, not sure about the rest! I might add an extra primrose too, as that space looks a bit empty.

Hopefully now I’ll keep up to date, whilst I have got more holidays planned this year, they’re only short breaks!

This stitch-a-long is organised by Avis, we all post every three weeks on our chosen project, please follow the links to see what every one else is stitching.

Avis, Claire, Kathy, Margaret,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen