Another RR Happy Dance
13 October 2005
This time is it my Passione Ricamo “Spring Topiary” for the Stitching Bloggers’ Seasonal Round Robin. I just love how this topiary tree turned out: It is so pretty!
It had a lot of color changes, but it actually stitched up rather fast. Not counting the border, I was able to stitch the tree in just 12 hours. I am sure it helped that except for the pot and the wording there is no backstitching. I am not certain how well you can see the backstitching on the pot, but it is the same color (DMC 3832) as the wording. I was a little skeptical about backstitching the pot in that color rather than brown, but I am surprisingly pleased with the result.
I stitched “Spring” because it is my favorite season (not to mention that I liked that pattern the best). I think that spring is my favorite season because I am a spring baby. When I was little I liked spring because my birthday is in the spring (May), but now I wonder if I just lucked out to be born in such a beautiful season!
The next person to get my topiaries will be Dawn and I think she is going to stitch “Autumn.” I know that autumn is her favorite season and I wonder if it is because her birthday is in autumn. Sort of an interesting question… I wonder how often a person’s favorite season corresponds to their birthday.
Anyway, I also have another RR square that I am working on for the EMS RR that I am in. We are on our last go-round and I am finally stitching on the little boy’s fabric. His theme is automobiles. I wanted very badly to stitch a 67 Mustang on his fabric (my dream car), but the only pattern I could find was too big for the square.
I did find a pattern for a 1929 Ford Model “A” that would fit though and decided to do it instead. It is sort of a boring stitch: Black and dark gray. I suppose technically I could change the colors, but I happen to know a bit about auto history and I know that Model Ts and Model As were only available in black, so I won’t change the colors.
Now that I have whittled my round robins and exchanges down (I finished stitching Dawn’s B-day exchange the other day) I am getting so excited about backstitching (and finishing!) “Passing Admirers” again that I just may work exclusively on it this weekend… we’ll see!
