Apr 6, 2011

Hester van Dorn

This is Hester van Dorn by Barrick Samplers.  I stitched this sampler with a dark-blue overdyed silk on a yellow hand-dyed linen.  I am Swedeish and blue and yellow are the colors of the Swedish flag, so I thought that this would be a nice tribute to my heritage (I have been living in the US for the past 12 years). 
This sampler was stitched to celebrate the year that a couple of our Greencheek Conures (small parrots) Rock and Hugin had their first clutch of babies - so I guess that you can say that this sampler was adapted into a "hatch sampler"... 
The initials on top are those of the proud "grandparents"; my DH and myself.


Thanks for looking,

3 comments:

Nina said...

Beautiful design, fabulous work!

Főkolomp said...

Oh, beautiful!!!!

Sandra said...

This is gorgeous Jenny, I love the colour of your linen. I think I might have this chart in my stash, must have a look for it.