October's section of my Stitch a Day sampler is complete and I think it was my favourite so far. All those warm oranges and browns, plus October does gives lots of inspiration for different things to sew. As ever I am trying to capture the personal, everyday parts of my life but also the more generally seasonal things, useful for those days when nothing happens apart from work and sleep. I always start at the outer edge and work towards the centre, and we have:
- acorn
- carrot
- hedgehog (he lives in the garden under the decking)
- toadstool
- butternut squash
- pine cone
- sycamore seed
- bracken
- oak leaf
- squirrel
- sycamore leaf
- books (ibrary visit)
- burgers (a parents' evening well done treat)
- toasted marshmallow
- rake sweeping up leaves
- clementine
- ginger and white chocolate cookie
- pumpkin
- wood burning stove (first fire of the autumn)
- roasted squash soup
- billy button dried flower
- boots (my new pair of Doc Martens)
- pint of beer (London)
- carousel horse (again, London)
- pumpkin pie
- macarons (bought in Greenwich market)
- shopping bag
- tulip bulb
- bat (Halloween)
- branches (from our gardening and trimming bushes)
- popcorn (cinema trip to see the new James Bond film)
This is absolutely beautiful 😍
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Delightful. Your tiny embroideries are so well done and perfect. And the entire piece is, will be, quite stunning.
ReplyDeleteWow! Do you draw them on first? If so, what pen/pencil do you use so it doesn’t show?
ReplyDeleteYour stitching is absolutely fantastic. Love all the 'memories'.
ReplyDeleteIt is going to be beautiful when it is finished. Lucky you having a hedgehog, I haven't seen one locally for years, and I live in a rural town...
ReplyDeleteThis is such a lovely project. Thank you for sharing your year in stitches. Look forward to seeing the completed work. You are so creative Gillian.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! I don't know how you think of so many different things to stitch!
ReplyDeleteThat is really NICE. What a beautiful project ... just great.
ReplyDeleteI wish you a lot of joy for November ... yes and only for December ... thank you very much for presenting your work.
I'm really looking forward to seeing the progress.
Many greetings to you from Viola
I know I am repeating myself, but you ARE an artist, Gillian!
ReplyDeleteMy October was a great month for me, and I can relate to many of the things you have chosen to symbolise it.
beautiful
ReplyDeleteI like the toadstool, we saw a load of fly agaric ones last week on a garden walk to see atumn acer trees. Looking good. Jo x
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totally wild about our stich i will link to your blog on mine
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