Last year, my intention was to stitch an ornament for a Christmas gift for my guy's mom. I stitched the ornament, but I didn't get it done for Christmas so the stitched piece never got made into an ornament. So I had every intention -- again -- of getting it finished as an ornament and giving it to her this year. (Never mind that she doesn't put up a tree.) It was one of the items that I intended to finish on Thanksgiving day and didn't.
In the meantime, I thought that I would like to stitch a bookmark for her. My favorite bookmark design is one that was a class piece at one of the Spirit of Cross Stitch Festivals back in the '90s; it's called Nell's Bookmark and the designer is Lucy Lyons Willis. The snag with that was that I couldn't find the chart. I have the bookmark that I stitched in class and I figured I could stitch another using that one as a pattern if I had to but I really wanted to find the chart.
Can you tell that I'm just a little disorganized?
Anyhoo, I finally accepted the fact today that the ornament probably won't get finished again this year. It might, but I'm not holding my breath. I decided to have one more go at finding the bookmark chart and stitching that for her. And find it I did, hooray! It was, of course, in the last place I looked :-) So I found a piece of evenweave in my stash -- 28 count, I think -- and found the Eva Rosenstand flosses from the original class piece and got to it this evening. Here's a picture; aren't the colors pretty?
This will be a fast stitch; I've done several of these for my mom and aunts and I should be able to do it this weekend. And speaking of Eva Rosenstand, does anyone know if there is still such a thing as Eva Rosenstand floss? I know Nordic Needle used to be the U.S. distributor, but I just looked at Rosenstand's website and the products page lists kits, fabrics and accessories, but I don't see anything about fibers.
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