In March and in April,The work of thy hands needlebook,MOTM

Liberty Mill Sampler by Chessie and meChild of Spring-VS

Ann Greanawalt

Geez! Now I'm only able to upload 1 picture!!! More later!

Crows in the kitchen(original), Jonah by Plum Street

elizabethan glove, dinky dyes biscornu

Glove progress

This is what I got done last night. After really examining a picture of detached buttonhole stitch I realized that I made a mistake. At the point where the color changes, I started a new backstitch line under the completed bhs part and began again. I should have just continued on with the loops already there. DUH!! Leave it to me to find a harder way to do it and then really go for it!! LOL! Well that is what happens when you are learning from a book, and don't have any real life examples before you! I am not going to rip it out now, this is a good practice piece before I start my beloved Golden Age sampler! I am truly loving this though!

detached buttonhole flower

Here I have finished the detached buttonhole petals on my flower-see how much better they look? I have frogged out the first petal I did, and worked it again. By the second petal I figured out how to do it and now it looks more like it is supposed too. I should have used a doodle cloth-then I wouldn't have had to frog out, but I am seldom that prudent! LOL!
I pulled out the center trellis stitch, and now I am re-working that. It is a really cool knotted stitch.
Once I finish the glove, I feel I will be confident enough to finally stitch the Golden Age sampler, a Nostalgic Needle design I have pined over for literally 12 years! I went to my LNS today and bought the rest of the supplies i needed for this one. It is worked in AVAS, and uses some gold threads and spangles. Fun! fun! fun! I can't wait to get started!