Love and Luck Wedding Sampler (also UFO Week Update)

Project: Love and Luck Wedding Sampler
Started: 29.04.09
Finished: 01.09.09

Design: Love and Luck Wedding Sampler by The Historical Sampler Company (from Cross Stitcher Magazine May 2009)
Materials: Pale lilac 16-count Aida; Anchor flosses; cream pearl seed beads

This project has taken me quite a while to complete as I kept going off the design and then it grew on me again later on and I’d come back to it. This time, as a result of resolving to finish it during UFO week, I really put the pressure on and added the final seed bead tonight (just as well, really, as the wedding is this weekend!). It won’t be framed in time for the wedding, but it most certainly will be by the time the happy couple return from their honeymoon.

I changed the original design a tiny bit by replacing the top and bottom edges of the horse shoe border with a quote from the Apache Wedding Prayer, which I will be reading at the wedding, just to make it a little more personal. It reads “Now you are two people with only one life before you.”

UFO Week: 1 September – 7th September

It’s that time again – time to drag out an unfinished project that’s idling and stitch it for a week! I’m definitely going to finish the wedding sampler for my friend this time round, as I only have a tiny bit of stitching to do and it’s all done. The wedding is on Saturday 5th September, so it’ll be stitched in time for that, but not framed. Ah well, I can always get it framed for when they return from their honeymoon!

Here’s where I’m up to at the moment (forgive the poor picture quality – the flash on my phone didn’t go off!):

I have the rest of the horseshoes to do down the left side of the border and also one either side of each line of text (at the top and bottom of the border); a bunch of small random hearts in the centre heart; and the beading at the centre of each green square cluster. So, not an awful lot left to do on this – despite having a busy week ahead, I expect to be finished within a couple of days… Fingers crossed!