We met yesterday to make plans for our next project - Knot Gardens.
As background to our next project, in the fall of 2005, I took a three day knot garden class at the Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace. This is what my garden looked like at the end of the three day class -
I have worked on it from time to time, and now it looks like this:
Back to stitch group yesterday. This is show and tell blackwork. It’s hard to see in the picture, but there is some sparkling gold thread with the black.
We didn’t do any stitching, but we made plans. We studied the RSN Knot Garden book and a canvas work pattern book, as well as sketched some possibilities on graph paper. They have some great ideas! They will be working on smaller gardens on stretcher bars.
This was our first get together of the new year, and the hostess made sweet bean and mochi soup. We had a lot of sweets, so I brought much of it home for later.
At the end of every meeting, we choose a date for the next session. I look forward to our next time when we’ll be working on our gardens.
