Wishing you a happy Halloween

 

Gnome and elf and fairy,

Witch and ghost make merry

On this last of dear October’s days.

Lettie C. Van Derveer, Halloween Happenings, 1921

Sometimes I just want the color..........red

 I have been stitching on two different cross stitch pieces ........one on one week, one on the next week........and both are lovely.  One is not enough done yet to show.......but this is the beginning stages of my "red garden sampler"

I have a cross stitch book that I just love by a French needlework designer , Marjorie Massey.  Her motifs and designs are so pretty! 

I think I have shown this garden lady to you before.  I had cross stitched her on screen wire........but it proved to be very tedious and hard......but I knew I wanted to cross stitch her again.  So I chose her actually as the main theme for the sampler I wanted to create.  

I love this border and decided to cross stitch it for my surrounding border.  I had a garden poem picked out for the sampler, but I have always loved this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne.  And right in the middle of stitching and getting ready to start the garden poem............ I had an idea for a butterfly that looks like it is flying "out " of the sampler.  So I cross stitched this quote instead

This is how it is looking at the moment and I am so happy with it.  This is the first time I have cross stitched a piece without a complete pattern to go by and with an idea of making it a "personal" sampler with the things I love about a garden.  I am not sure how much or what else I will add and I am not sure how large it will be.  I am just cross stitching what the day brings to my heart.

But I love the whole red floss look......do you?

Do you like one solid color embroidered samplers?  If so,

do you like red, or do you prefer black......or maybe a dark blue?

I would love to hear!

**** with it being October, I have a wonderful fall treat recipe.

For the recipe , just click onto this link:

Apple Crisp

Here's wishing you pleasant autumn days