Just Nan Winter Romance

Lavender and Lace 1987 Angel

Lavender and Lace 1986 Angel

Mirabilia Under the Friendship Tree

No Picture.

Stitched for friends' second daughter.

Picture from Mirabilia.com

Joan Elliott Noah's Ark

Kit.

Stitched on 14count aida as a Birth Sampler for my son.

Bagpuss card

Stitched while I was in hospital having my son!

Cover gift from Cross Stitcher magazine.

Alphabet Birth Sampler

Stitched when I was expecting the Large Boy.

Chart from a Library Book.

Wedding Sampler for Kirsten

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Wedding Sampler for Claire

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Lavender and Lace 2000 Angel

Dress stitched in hand dyed varigated silk
Christmas Angels found here

Lavender and Lace Emma's Garden

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Stitched for friends' first daughter

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Picture from TIAG site

Millennium Sampler

I stitched this in 2000 to celebrate the new Millennium.  The outside is all as charted but I changed the centrepiece into a family name tree of my own design.  I also changed alot of the names around the centre.  They were meant to be famous people who have made a great contribution to life in the last millennium.  So why were there so few women?  My Mum and I put our heads together and came up with a much better list:

Constable (John) - painter born in Suffolk and best known for his painting of the area
Cavell (Edith) - nurse born in Norfolk, executed during WWI for saving many lives, both Allied and German.
Hillary (Sir Edmund) - mountaineer/explorer, first person to reach the summit of Mt Everest, my "House" at Primary School
Earhart (Amelia) - aviation pioneer, first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Elgar (Edward) - composer, best known for Pomp and Circumstance
Sharman (Helen) - first Briton in Space (Interview here)
Drake (Francis) - English sea captain in the time of Elizabeth I, one of the "Houses" at my Primary School
Fry (Elizabeth) - Quaker and prison reformer
Dickens (Charles) - Victorian author and social critic
Curie (Marie) - physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize Winner, see also the Cancer Care Charity named for her.
Chanel (Gabrielle "Coco") - fashion designer
Pankhurst (Emmeline) - leader of the Suffragette movement which won the right for women to vote
Jenner (Edward) - physician and pioneer of vaccination
Bronte (Anne, Emily and Charlotte) - 19th century authors
Scott (Captain Robert) - Royal Navy officer and explorer, known as Scott of the Antarctic, one of the "Houses" at my Primary School.

The fourth "House" at Primary School was Columbus (Christopher) and he was already featured in the main squares so I didn't add him to the middle design.

Lavender and Lace 1988 Angel

Christmas Angels found here

Lavender and Lace 1991 Angel

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Stitched for my friend



Picture from TIAG site

Lavender and Lace 1999 Angel

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Stitched for my friend's mum.

Lavender and Lace 1999 Angel

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Stitched for my friend

Lavender and Lace 1997 Angel

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Stitched for my friend, changed the hair colour to auburn to match her's.


Picture from TIAG site

Lavender and Lace Celtic Bride

My own conversion of Celtic Christmas as a bride for a friend's wedding.

The rose bouquet was freestyled using roses from Sleeping Beauty.

Lavender & Lace Angelica

Stitched in 2000 when my Nana was in hospital then residential care.

I was stitching this on the day she passed away, literally beside her bed stitching.

I'm not sure when I finished her but the 8th August is Nana's Birthday. 

Stitched on 28 count evenweave mostly over 2 but her skin is over 1.

My second experience of over 1, her face and neck took all of the four day Easter weekend.

Barn Owl

Commissioned by a friend (and paid for too).

Charted from a photograph using a computer program.

Never again!

Stitched on 14 count aida.