Okay, so I am weird. I have coveted a crepe turner for years. This December, I bought this nice wooden one at the Cluj Christmas market. It's so smooth and pretty!
Elsie and I have had an exchange going for over a year, but it's finally done! She sent me a lovely temari that you will see in a day or two and I sent her this large kiku thing. The colors cheered me up as i stitched it, so I hope they cheer her up whenever she looks at it, too!
This piece is a kit. I hated the white aida, so I ended up using my own linen. It's a stack of several coffee cups with different patterns, so it won't be boring.
This is the view from the second story o the covered market in Budapest. It's huge. It's also a great place to get lost, though some booths are geared toward tourists, with commensurate prices.
I just had to change out the white aida for something else and only got a few stitches in. I have been so very busy and very tired lately that my stitching's suffered.
I have had this sampler done for at least three years, and, knowing we're going to move, we're taking a lot of things to MolDeco to get framed. This was one of them. I think they did an awesome job! The framing makes this blah sampler stunning.