I knew it was a while since I started this piece, but was stunned to check back through my archive and find it was 2012! We were doing a redwork workshop at Embroiderers’ Guild, stitching cups, plates, teapots etc. in various stitches with red threads. I’m not the biggest fan of red, so don’t have a lot of red threads and also, crockery to me always means blue and white, so I went off piste a bit and started to stitch this bowl.
It’s a big piece for me and shortly after I took this photo, something else became more pressing and it lapsed. As the huge french knot piece is currently still in abeyance, I wanted something slightly more long term to stitch and the bluework fitted the bill. I’ve not done an awful lot more, but I have finished the leaves on the ribbon rose section, which are two lazy daisy stitches nested inside each other.
I even managed to find a close match for the thread – there was no chance that after 4+ years I was going to remember what I’d originally used!!
My plan was that each section of the bowl would be filled with a different flower design, using different techniques and styles, so several happy hours have been spent on Pinterest gathering inspiration and I’m looking forward to getting going with it again.
Under A Topaz Sky 
This is beautiful. I get a great sense of calm from it.
Oh, this will be such fun to do!
Really, really,lovely!
This looks like such a great fun project! You’ve reminded me of a ‘blue’ piece I was planning on starting about ten years ago!
2012……don’t the years fl when we look back at projects, finished and unfinished. I do love those beautiful roses….
this is pretty! What a lovely project – so freeing to choose your own stitches for each part