Saturday Night Stitching

I took a break to go out and watch some of the neighborhood fireworks this evening, but I did manage to put in a little bit of time on Anna Thies. The five little green stitches going down the right side are Algerian eyelets; there are quite of few of those to put in on the right and left side both, so I decided to get a runny-go at them.


The new SANQ came today :-)) They've really outdone themselves with beautiful reproductions the past few issues. Last issue was Isabella Johnstone, and this month is Ellen O'Brien:

Isn't it beautiful? The reds in the picture in the magazine don't look as bright as they do in my picture-of-a-picture. The lead article in the Summer issue was about cows in needlework and the first page included a picture of a gorgeous sampler that was identified as "1864 EF Sampler". It, of course, had not been reproduced, but there is a little blurb at the bottom of Phyllis Hoffman DePiano's note in the front of the magazine that says due to the enthusiastic response from readers they are going to reproduce "1864 EF" in a future issue. Hooray!

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Happy 4th of July and happy stitching!