MERRY CHRISTMAS

Queenie wishes you a 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Sunbonnet Sue

I got a few requests about my Sunbonnet Sue collection. 

So far, there are 310 stitches in Sunday Stitch School. After every five stitches, I have made a Sunbonnet Sue stitch sampler. 

Let's do some mathematics: 310 ÷ 5 = 62. Yes, there are 62 Sunbonnet Sue pictures!

Some are the traditional Sue with her charming puppy fat and simple lines, and some are her bonnets, but most of the pictures are my own interpretations of Sue. Sue as a baby, a child, a teenager, a schoolgirl, an adult, a bride, an old lady... Sue is playing, relaxing, working, going shopping, crying, gardening, having her hair done, falling off a ladder ... but all the time, her face is hidden, one way or another.

Here are a few examples:

My first plan was to make a quilt, so I added wadding and the embroidery of each scene is done through the sandwich of top, bottom and wadding. 

Now I realise I can not make a quilt - it would simply be too large. What I will do is get a picture frame and display a picture per week in this frame. It will take me over a year to go through them all!

I will write more about this project later.

WIPW - Fabric Covered Plastic Cups

 It's time for this week's Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Hexablooms

I used some more of the Christmas prints I have to make ten more flowers, bringing the total to 220.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

I added two plastic cups that I had covered with fabric. Around one of them, I stitched #55 Tailor's Buttonhole Stitch (over gimp) and over the other, I made a grid of #135 Net Stitch.

Sunday Stitch School - Taking a Holiday

December is a busy month. I have decided to keep Sunday Stitch School closed for the rest of the year,

and start the next set of five stitches on the first Sunday in January next year.

Sunbonnet Sue made with stitches 231 - 235,   December 2022

Sunbonnet Sue can slumber in her box. Instead, I will continue with Hexablooms and Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler. The next blog post will be WIPW on Wednesday.