My first blessing is about my husband, my soulmate. Us together…it’s such a wonderful thing and I could not be more thankful. I can’t really express it all in words…

I drew out a pair of hearts together for my first square and just filled in the hearts with a light pink floss. The border is the Palestrina stitch and although it’s not the most perfect hand embroidery, I’m in love with what it represents and means to me. Loving this project and will be working on my next square.

One thing I have to find is a new source for embroidery floss. It costs 1.40 euros here for one tiny skein…eek!

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 2:08 pm | count my blessings project, hand embroidery | 10 comments

I just discovered on the Sublime Stitching website that they have guides! I am totally going to check them out to make sure I’m not completely clueless. Finding it hard to really dig in and stitch…eek! http://www.sublimestitching.com/stitches

I think there is always that fear of doing it wrong and looking silly – even if technically you can undo the stitching and start over. Sigh. I’ve also been busy with work, but brainstorming how I’m going to stitch my first blessing square – being married to my wonderful husband. We are coming up on our first anniversary, so it’s exciting and wonderful and all that lovey dovey stuff. I’m not sure what I want to stitch to represent the blessing…it seems so deep and complicated. Rings, hearts…hmm…

Posted on May 4, 2010 at 10:56 pm | count my blessings project, hand embroidery | No comments

I finally cut my fabric piece and drew up a 100 square grid. However, the fabric seems really dirtied up by the pencil. I assume it will wash off and I hope I am right…but the other concern is if the lines are really supposed to go with the linen threads as well! I am still debating if I should stitch the grid in to be more precise and have a guide.

I suppose I should be doing a back stitch, but looking at the varieties out there I suppose even a fancier whipped back stitch might be cool. Perhaps too much for the grid itself? Or I suppose a beginner should go with the stem stitch…so many choices!

Posted on May 1, 2010 at 9:47 pm | count my blessings project | No comments