The next new start might start to look familiar over the year as I think I've accumulated a lot of these Irish themed projects since my parents had a vacation in Ireland. They said it was the best place they'd ever visited, and they've been on quite a few vacations to different locations around the world.
This is what the project will look like when completed. It has some specialty stitches and instead of just green and white I plan to throw some orange in there as well, so it will have the colours of the Irish flag. I managed to find some close colours in my stash of Silks4U Advent threads and will be using them on some stash fabric. I believe it's 25ct Jobelan since it's a looser weave than some evenweaves I've used.
Here's my start after a couple threadlengths were added:
Irish Sampler by The Sampler House
stitched 2 over 2 on 25ct stash fabric
with Silks4U advent threads
I'm fairly happy with this start, although I kind of wish I'd stitched the zigzag line in orange. I didn't think of it till it was almost complete though, and it's not worth frogging the whole thing. Accents will be fine. I will very likely not stitch the alphabet on the bottom, although maybe I'll come up with something, like my parents initials or something like that. There's already a beautiful Irish phrase, so I don't think it needs another one. Unless I want to throw in something a little naughty? Pog mo thoin perhaps?
Probably not if it's going to be a gift for my parents. My dad would definitely look it up to see what it meant.
This was lovely to stitch on so far and I'm looking forward to getting back to it. Hope your stitching days have gone well.
Happy Stitching!
Tiffstitch
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