Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Almost Halfway...

Back to Courtney Collection's Alphabet Song. 
This is now about the size of a piece of paper sideways.  It is six skeins of dmc floss used.  That 'T.' at the bottom center, that is the center of this.  This is 13 of 28 rows of text completed, also 13 of 28 pages are are now completed. I know it is hard to read, so I will simply write out what is completed.
"Once There Was A Poor Seamstress who had been orphaned as a child, and widowed as a young mother and knew only a life of drudgery.   Nevertheless, as she stitched from dawn into the night, she sang.  Sometimes aloud and sometimes in a whisper.  Year after year she sewed and sang.  The garments which came from her hands were many and varied.  She repaired a farmers overalls as carefully as she embroidered a bridal gown.  Yet the song that she sang remained the same; it wasn't a song at all, over and over, to whatever melody came to mind she sang the letters of the alphabet.  Finally her neighbors............   "
Nice to have it filling in, but I can only do a few days of this at a time.