June 28, 2006

Mike's Happy Dance

TRADITIONAL WELSH SAMPLER (Designer: Brenda Keyes)
Today I went to University and had a nice lunch with my tutor and one of the other professors who were obviously on "cheer up duties" - they did have me laughing out loud for the first time in ages, as they make a good double-act. I then took the long route home to collect a DMC thread 642 (stone) to complete the sampler - I could not believe I ran out of thread with only 2 of the little edges to complete. Just my luck!
As you will know, I have been stitching the above Welsh Sampler for quite a long time (approximately 9 months on and off, in between other projects and exams of course!). Well, finally today was the day I put the last stitch in this piece at around 5pm UK time to be exact.
Mike would be sitting in his favourite chair, reading his newspaper and drinking a nice glass of red wine, watching me beavering away industriously on it, so I know he will now be pleased with the result. We are slowly dancing round the room, with me in his arms ....
I have a gold frame for it, but just need to get the right piece of backing board to mount and lace it , before putting it into the frame. Once it is completed, I will take a photo of it "in-situ" in the living room. I think it may be a week or two before it will be completed because I have to go to the art-shop in town.
After such a busy day, I am very tired, so I wish you all a fond goodbye until my next blog entry.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh !!!!!
You did it ! And you manaed to estimate the remaining time correctly ! (another challenge in my opinion).
It looks so great ! It was really worth 9 months of work !

Leeland said...

What a lovely sampler, Ali! I was also looking forward to seeing it finished! And that's a happy dance!
Also, what wonderful, touching, loving words, Ali.
It feels so good to have you back on the web!
Hugs!

nela said...

A quedado lindooooo andale siii, una sonrisa masss,

Carto said...

A beautiful piece of work - I've danced a happy dance for you too x

Bastet said...

it's wonderful to see the sampler finished at last.

Sasha Farina said...

that is simply beautiful Ali :)

Veronica said...
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Veronica said...

It's lovely and would look beautiful hanging in your home. *Joining you in you Happy Dance* :D

Kitty Couture said...

Congratulations Ali! Your Welsh sampler is absolutely gorgeous. What an accomplishment.

This shall be my very last comment on any blog for a while... I wanted you to have the last one :) Thank you so much for your emails... I'll "talk" to you in August, dear Ali, but I'll be thinking of you every day till then! (((((hugs)))))

Mayté Bermúdez-García said...

Woww It looks fantastic!!! I?m dancing with you too :). I have been with migrain crisis for about a week so far and did not have time to visit the Blogs I read, but Ifeel so happy for you. Go, go Girl!!

Hugs and Kisses

lena-lou said...

Your Welsh Sampler is beautiful and I will look forward to the piccy of it insitu. I am so glad to see you stitching and blogging...your very brave and I admire you :-)

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! Ann.