Sunday, January 11, 2015

Crazy January Start #2: Cute Mushrooms

I changed out the fabric on this Russian kit, since the original was aida cloth.  So far, it doesn't look like much.

Cookies!

Evidently Hungary's Christmas cookie market isn't as advanced as Germany, France, and Austria's.  I found these and they're pretty, but they don't have nearly as many kinds.  


Currency

 These are photos from inside the apartment they've left in communist era decor.  They are of various forms of currency.  Yes, toilet paper was in shortage and became a form of currency.
 

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Crazy January #1: Old Country

This is the beginning of Jim Wurth's Old Country, one of the dodecagon ornament series.  It's a bit different from the ones I've done so far in that the edge smyrna stitches are done in two metallic threads.