Showing posts with label Mary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2020

~ Early Morning Stitching ~

Good Morning Friends & Folk!
Happy Friday to us all...
a glorious day for our neck of the woods....warm temps, slight breeze.
actual MAY WEATHER!!
 
It wasn't bright enough to stitch
when I woke this morning ~
{{ but I had a little help from my little owl lamp... }}


many more stitches to go on this, 
my 'Mary Black's Epitaph' sampler ~ 
I have the rest of the wording to stitch, then on to motifs and date...
then finally the border will be worked!



you may remember, 
this was a design that has been in my computer for a few years ~
and was never fully charted...so I am winging it as I stitch it now,
~ just adding things from my imagination.
 {something I love to do }




using some of my favorite fonts for the lettering ~
and making up more as I go.
 

the sun was coming up as I began taking photos...
I love the soft morning light on my wood floors
here in this old farmhouse.




a favorite pair of chartreuse Bohin scissors ~ purchased at one of my favorite LNS:
In Stitches Needlework in Alexandria VA

and a favorite fob from 
Victoria Gable at www.stitchnbutton.etsy.com
{ don't know what I love more about this one, the amethyst-colored gems, 
the bone crescent moon or the dangly little broom at the end!}


sun is up! 
on with the day...
chores to do, then back to my stitching chair.

what are your plans for this beautiful day?
 


Blessings from the Farm
 ~ Lori

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

~ My Friend Mary ~


I was not tired at all last night ~
and after a full weekend of kayaking with family and friends,
 you'd think I would be!

so I watched some mindless TV and stitched.
 gathered together and surrounded by threads and scraps of cupboard cloth {osnaburg}
and just let me hands create...

 
Growing up in CT, 
and spending lots of time in the ancient graveyards there,
 I found the name 'Mary Black' on a headstone...
I was smitten with the name 
and felt as though Mary & I could have been {or perhaps were?} 
~ friends through time.

the first time I used the name was back in the early 2000's ~ 
... when I designed this:
'Mary Black's Shoe' pinkeep
{pattern available here


 and 
'Olde Witche Mary'
{pattern available here }


I even punched this, using dear Mary's name ~
waaaay back in 2009 for a EHAG group challenge
{Ecclectic Halloween Artists Group}
and this piece is now in private collection...
{but I think I need to make another one!}


so, 
with the inspiration from my tiny little muse, 
 I am continuing on with my story of keeping her namesake alive.

 This is just an ongoing theme in my brain that keeps popping up ~
and it never has to be Hallowe'en for a witch to be included in my folk art or needlework!

so, here is little Mary Black again ~
this time, 
in her Strawberry Garden.


she is humbly cross stitched, 
simply freehanded so that she is my favorite kind of wonky.
 

satin stitches are included too...
in DMC cotton threads.
I have a little more to stitch, then will finish this into a ....
well, at the moment, I don't know quite how yet.
but
she'll tell me. 
;)


I'll offer her on June 1st's 
and if I have time, perhaps another small work.
 


My how time is flying by....

Blessings from the Farm 
~ Lori