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Monday, January 11, 2016

Go West

The first finish of the year: Heart of Alberta.

I actually finished it off late last night but didn't get a chance to post until now.

Let's see, what's there to say about Alberta? Most people probably know about the oil that comes out of Alberta. It's also one of the prairie provinces and the biggest wheat producing province in the country. There's also the Calgary Stampede, which is an annual rodeo festival. And the Alberta Badlands where tons of dinosaur fossils were found.


Pictured are the Wild Rose, Great Horned Owl and Lodgepole Pine, the provincial flower, bird and tree respectively. The specialty stitch was the Crow's Foot Stitch which was a breeze.
TitleHeart of Alberta
DesignerThe Victoria Sampler
Start dateJanuary 5, 2016
Finish dateJanuary 10, 2016
Total time6.25 hours
Fabric32 ct white lugana
FlossAs charted

13 comments:

Rachel said...

Congratulations on your first finish of 2016! It's a sweet little design which I can appreciate more thanks to your interesting accompanying history lesson! :)

Shortbread and Ginger said...

It's lovely!
Liz

Amy said...

That's lovely! I especially like the roses - the wild rose is the state flower of my home state, Iowa. However, there are far fewer dinosaur bones in Iowa than Alberta, about which I'm kinda jealous...

Heather said...

Looks great :). It sounds like Colorado where I grew up

valerie said...

Pretty finish, Blu!

Le trame della Galaverna said...

Beautiful
You did a very great work

Maria del Valle said...


It's very beautiful your first embroidery of the year, hugs! :))

Anonymous said...

Beautiful! Now what will you do, frame it? Turn it into an ornament?

Rahenna said...

These are so cute... how many hearts are left in the set? :)

Cindy's Stitching said...

very pretty. so delicate.

Von said...

A very beautiful finish!

Angela said...

Congrats on your first finish of the year!

Nima said...

wow..thats a pretty finish...