Traveling along the snail trail I’ve moved into the next round of sections with a pomegranate blackwork pattern from
Fill-in Patterns from Sixteenth Century Blackwork Embroideries.
If you squint your eyes you can see the swirl, especially in the darker colors.
My goal of making a post each day on this piece is sometimes hard to meet, but is a really good way of staying “on track,” especially as the sections get larger and more complex.
I continue to like this piece more as I go along. I’m planning to make it into a pillow top inset into some sage green linen, if I can find it.
Today we’re going to walk the trail at the Dutch Gap Conservation Area which is considered by the Audobon Society to be one of the top birding sites in Virginia. ‘Hope we see some birds, although we don’t have our guide book with us, so we won’t be able to do much identification. There’s a heron rookery there, so maybe we’ll see some of those majestic birds.
