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I finished another pattern, and it's in my shop for $1 now. I can't wait to stitch this one after I'm done with the Swan and Viburnum pieces. It's arguably my favorite I've created so far; the design was inspired by several examples of Romanian embroideries available on plate 42 of 'Motive der hausindustriellen stickerei in der Bukowina' (Specimen embroideries of the home-based industry in Bucovina).

I’m planning on it being part of a larger piece that I’ll use at the solstices.

This is one of the harder ones I'm still currently working on- mostly because I chose to stitch it in a simulated gradient, which is turning out to be much more fiddly that I'd like. I'm likely going to pull stitches out of the original because it's not quite right and I've botched it in some areas already. Then from there I can proceed with the fully charted design rather than trying to wing it together.

I think my poor brain just wanted to do cross stitch, because this is SUCH a cross stitch motif, and kept doing things just slightly wrong.

These solar symbols are found everywhere in Baltic folk art.

I've spent most of my morning charting out the "Spring" folk embroidery piece that I did as my first ever cross stitch. There were a lot of corrections that needed to be made to the pattern as I charted it, since I winged the original very heavily. But I got it done, and it's now for sale in my Ko-Fi Shop for $1. The downside is, I only have photos of the original piece I winged. Maybe some day I'll redo it using the corrected pattern, in order to have better photos.

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