Christmas in July...

and a finish is insight!

You may remember the below photo from a posting from last fall.

I started this sampler last year

and I see a finish insight

this week.

Took me a year to finish,

not because of the size

but,

sometimes life gets in the way and it got set aside.

 

It's just been waiting in the pocket of my stitching bag,

waiting it's turn...

I pulled it back out a week ago

and it is really turning into a beautiful Christmas sampler.

 

Maybe it is those pretty little snowflakes

on these hot hot summer days that I like stitching...

 

 

or

maybe it's those pretty flosses of shades of peppermint pinks, holly berry reds and pine greens

that sing to me...

 

 

Maybe it is the "mish-mash patchworky" border ...

Couldn't decide upon which border I liked best,

so I made the easy decision to use all three!

 

As Bob Ross would say,

the sampler has many "happy little trees"

or was it "pretty little trees"?

 Trees carefully placed in a fashion that  make bigger trees...

Do you see?

 

Fruit baskets filled with shiny red and golden delicious apples...

they are their best at holiday time!

Mmmm, can you smell them?

Shiny delicious apples and popcorn balls was the dessert

at Grammy and Grandpas house on Christmas Eve,

always,

 every year.

I was reminded of those family gatherings

 as I stitched,

one apple

 after

 another...

 

Its been a fun stitch,

I will be sad to stitch it's last stitch;

but;

happy to have a finish!

Those are the best sort of finishes,

don't you agree?

 

 

 

With thy Needle & Thread,
Brenda