Look what came in the mail the other day! The Elizabeth by Mirabilia. A complete kit was purchased from the ABC Stitch Therapy. It did take a little while for this beauty to materialize at my doorstep, but the wait was worth it! The colors, the beads, the linen!
And no, I don't get to keep this one. The proud new owner of this scrumptious piece of thready goodness is my mama, a recreational stitcher with some major OCD tendencies. Seriously, the woman is so meticulous with her stitching that in her head she calculates the shortest trajectory for her threads to travel before making a single stitch. The back sides of her finished pieces are a work of art worth a personal MoMa exhibit! I kid you not! Happy stitching, mama!
While ordering Elizabeth, something else fell into my shopping cart. Oops! Cue the bugle fanfare music... My very own Royal Holiday chart!
I have an excuse though - I've had all the materials for this puppy forever! Like 6 years forever! First I had to finish some projects to undertake such a major piece (remember, I'm uber slow). Then my son was born, and out went my sleep taking my brain along for a ride. Well, the brain ain't back, but some semblance of free time is. I keep taking the box with the thread bobbins and beads out and drooling over it, caressing the linen and whispering "my precccccious" and scaring the daylights out of my cat. Time to put this girl to rest (up on my wall), before my husband commits me to a mental institution. There was one hiccup in the execution plan - the lack of the chart. Back in the days when I first met this lovey, I was a piss-poor art student with no respect or appreciation for the copyright protection laws. I grabbed the chart off the "webinets" and stashed it away for "future reference". Fast forward to about 3 weeks ago - I'm still piss-poor (for the most part), but I do realize that everyone needs to eat and clothe themselves, and have some play money, including Nora Corbett, who designed this piece. Thus, the appearance of the aforementioned chart in my shopping cart and... ramen noodles for lunch for the next few weeks.
I'll keep you posted on the progress. Until then, happy stitching!
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