Spring Queen

I started this project seven years ago...I picked it out when I went to my first stitch and bitch (a 12 hour gathering of fellow stitchers where we stitch and bitch)...we don't always stitch, there was the yarn and fabric store, the candy store and the ice cream shop!!

Anyways...it was my first project on linen. I started the project and I brought it over to my babi's house to show her. She said I would never finish it. I was disappointed and a little hurt that she thought I would never finish it. That being said though when I was little she gave me two projects to do and I didn't finish either. So I promised her I would finish it. 

I worked on it straight for a few months but you know me...I get bored easily and I'd find new projects and work on those. This is where I left the project:

Babi passed away a few years ago and I put the project away. I didn't have the heart to work in the project, so it sat in a box untouched for years. Occasionally I would see the box and think about working on the project but I couldn't bring myself to work on it. 

Needless to say the Spring Queen was put on the rotation schedule. I was almost dreading the project. I thought it would be too emotional for me to work on the project. I wasn't emotional like I thought I would be. I plugged through my ten hours.

I finished the ribbons, the bouquet (minus the back stitching), and some of the dress. 

I'm happy with this way that this has turned out so far. It will not be going back into a box.

Another x on my rotation schedule! 

Happy stitching and musings!

~M