When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
I wanted to do something traditional and elegant had such high hopes for the Victoria Sampler box top heart. Despite gridding the fabric and using thread counter doohickeys, I wasn't able to do the trellis for the heart as called for. I finally gave up and put down something that was almost right. Next challenge was filling the outline with flowers. To aid the shaping, I basted a heart shape over the trellis. Despite this procedure, it's a bit off on one side Lettering for names was too simplistic so I pulled it out. The called for scroll 'frame' proved to be impossible so I did a xs viney thing on the top and bottom. Since I wasn't happy that it wasn't perfect, I decided not to have it professionally finished as originally planned. On a rare foray out due to health problems, I lucked out when I found an ornate gold frame of the right size at a local art supply store.
Being unable to count threads or translate what my eye sees/reads on a chart to fabric has forced me to be 'creative' in my stitching. It still wasn't right so I bought a package of wedding themed buttons, found a few I liked and spray painted them antique gold to match the frame. It's more scrapbooky than I wanted but it is sort of nice
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