I hope you’re having as excellent a time this week as I am. It’s school vacation week and I’m officially Not In The Office, although I am checking emails every morning which is hardly a burden. We’re having absolutely golden weather here in southeastern MA, sunny and warm with a light breeze. Fantastic.

Today I have eye candy for you, the fruits of Susan’s needlework skills, or some of them anyway, that she brought for show & tell at the April session. That first picture is a lovely assortment of different techniques.

The second is really amazing. It looked vaguely familiar to me, and when I turned it over and saw she’d only picked up threads on the surface of the fabric it looked even more familiar. She said it was Swedish darning (ooh, I hope I remembered that name right!) but was also called huck embroidery. Huck was the name I was thinking of when I saw it, but it was finer than I’d seen. Susan said she’d never seen any in person when she made that, and only later realized that sort of embroidery was usually done on a much larger scale. It looks great, though, doesn’t it?

Have another great day tomorrow.