Oh goodness, I'm not very good at this posting lark, am I? My apologies for my absence over the last few weeks. To be honest, I was on holiday for two weeks (and busily embroidering for you instead).
Well, I have finally finished the sampler for my friend's little girl (mind you, at the rate I'm going, she'll be married before I've ironed and posted it to her!). So she and her brother will now have 'matching' samplers.
I embroidered the 'brother sampler' shortly after he was born:
And have adapted the design to suit a girl, as you can see, by changing the colours and some of the toys depicted. My remit included her favourite colour (purple) and that she's a horse fan, so I've done my best to include those requests.
There were a few dilemmas as I progressed, including the colour of the alphabet around the edge (it started out green!), were the 'little ladies' in the centre too pale, and
most crucially, which letters of the alphabet should I put on the blocks!?! Actually, it isn't as daft as it sounds really. As you will see from the 'brother sampler', they have A, B and C on them, but as his name starts with G, that was easy (see the individual block on the right). But with her name starting with B, I thought the 'sister sampler' would be a bit repetetive if there were two blocks with B on them. Instead I opted for the end of the Welsh alphabet (which follows the original design by
Brenda Keyes anyway). I also thought of putting a B on the horse's saddle, but decided against it in the end.
Please post your comments on the two samplers - I'd love to hear what you all think!
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