This weekend was our Annual Zecca Retreat. In the past it was in person and now we are mostly on zoom! It’s a wonderful opportunity for so many more of our friends to convene from near and far. We had a great time!
The project is entitled “The Flowers Remembered” and I really just can’t stand how fun it is to stitch. It’s all my favorite things rolled into one. Let’s start with the fabulous colors. It is a tall canvas 6.25″ x 24″ on 18ct, so it has a lot of background which I chose to fill with a random background of posies. All the posies are diagramed in the instructions so you won’t have to make any decisions.
You know I love beads so of course the bones are beaded.
The flowers are almost all ribbonwork and pop off the canvas. This is a great canvas to learn how to work with ribbon. You can’t help but fall in love with the colors. The leaves aren’t ribbon so you get nice contrast. I even made lots of new videos for this project that are over on the YouTube channel.
The star of the show is the winged heart milagro in the center of the canvas. I couldn’t resist, she needed real copper wings! Trust me this is big effect for minimal effort. You can do this!
This stitches surprisingly fast. You will have her done in no time. She will be hanging on your wall quietly reminding you of those that have passed. If you would like to stitch your very own Dia de Los Muertos skeleton, here’s the link.
Mystery Class News
Speaking of cats, Our next Mystery Class is Blue Cat in the Jungle by Johanna Virtanen. It’s starting soon! Here’s the link.
Santa Fe Felines will be the next of the Mysteries with a Twist to get it’s final stitches. Don’t get excited yet. We are busily sending out Let’s Fall in Love kits. Stay tuned.
The newest of the new is in the What’s New section of the website. Stay up to date on new canvases by visiting that link often :-) You never know what might just have been released.
xo
ruth
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