Forget me not: Elaine’s Botanicals
Dionne 
Embroidery and Crewel 
double running stitch, Elaine's botanicals, embroidery, french knots, lazy daisy, satin stitch, stem stitchForget me nots are among my fonder memories of my Grandma, Hazel. My not so fond memories include her flipping over a little handkerchief that I had embroidered at the age of 5 and informing me “The mark of a true artisan is to have a back as neat as the front” … its ok, I am not in therapy anymore …
Not a fairy in sight
I digress, her greatest gifts to her grandchildren were her cordon bleu cooking skills, mmmm yummy food at Grandma’s … and her fairy gardens. She always had one. She lived in three houses in my lifetime, and her best fairy garden was at Boat Harbour at the bottom of her garden at the end of a little winding path. There, forget me nots, foxgloves and bluebells grew with abandon. They are the flowers I remember clearly, I am sure there were more. Elaine’s Botanicals Forget me not is simple and yet it features a variety of embroidery stitches; double running stitch, french knots, lazy daisy stitch, satin stitch and stem stitch.
Cosmos: Elaine’s Botanicals
Dionne Embroidery and Crewel double running, Elaine's botanicals, embroidery, french knots, lazy daisy
Not sure where I have seen Cosmos. Had to ring mum and ask if and where she had it. Of course she has it. It is just that this delicate annual is a late summer flower, apparently a ground cover, and I am never there at Strathmore when it is flowering.
Timing is not a problem with Elaine’s Botanicals Cosmos, it will bloom forever and very importantly not need to be replanted next spring for a late summer show. Delicately stitched in double running stitch, lazy daisy and french knots, the little leaves resemble fern fronds.
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