I feel like I haven’t cross stitched in months (maybe that feeling stems from the fact that I haven’t) but never-the-less my needle, hoop and embroidery threads are out and ready for action.
About a year or more ago a Round Robin I participated in got lost in the post between Scotland and India (just before it was almost totally completed). Here’s a photo that was taking before that terrible circumstance…
To say the least, I was devastated. All those hours of stitching and posting to different countries to end like this. Well I recently received a mystery package in the mail… no it was not my butterfly RR returning home but it was a new beautiful sampler the ladies put together (in secret) and I received it with as much joy as I would have the one that went ‘astray’.
A RR (Round Robin) is a group of cross stitchers living in different (or the same) countries that stitch on rotating projects until your own project returns home completed with six designs.
The ladies left a square for me to stitch a butterfly at the top (which can’t really be seen in this photo). So hoping this project will subdue my cooking bug and bring my cross stitching bug back.
A big thank you to all those lovely ladies:
Julie, Maggie, Lallee, Samantha and Janet
Oh it is lovely. What a wonderful surprise