Drizzle stitch

If I look at this photo which I made at Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines where we visited the 18. Carrefour du Patchwork (Alsace, the most eastern department in France ) I do not wonder why I made......

 

 

my drizzle stitches like that ....

 

 

 

 

Although I did not in the least think of this photo

 

 

 

 

Here is a closer shot - there was no sun all day

even some rain.

 

 

 

Secret letter - Butterfly chain stitch

My secret letter in hieroglyphics

All I can reveal:

My dear.................................

               so much love!

This was my first try for the butterfly chain stitch.

And then I had another idea.

I  stitched a fern as they grow in abundance around our house in the French Vosges

and some even migrated into our German garden - probably by our soles.

And how I learned to damp-stretch in Karen Ruanes button class - I did so. And it happend that the colour just ran away the handdyed thread not being colourfast.

I am not sad about it as I wanted to paint it after stitching anyhow.