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Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:10 pm

Yay!

Orpheus is boxed

Scary moment - because of the construction of the box the fabric had to be cut exactly to size

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 7:05 am

Beautiful finished Mabel

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:56 am

Perfect!

rcperryls · Post by **rcperryls** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 1:11 pm

Beautiful!!!!!!!

Carole

xstitchalanna · Post by **xstitchalanna** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:37 pm

Oh WOW... and Wow and did I say wow?

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 11:15 pm

xstitchalanna wrote:Oh WOW... and Wow and did I say wow?

My sentiments exactly. Love the colour of the thread too Mabel.

kingfisher68 · Post by **kingfisher68** » Tue Nov 15, 2016 5:01 pm

My oh my oh my. What a beautiful piece you stitched for the lovely box. Love it, it is GREAT

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:33 pm

I've taken a bit of time to finish a design that's been lying around for over two years - it's another pair to add to Floral Lace (which so far consists of 9 pairs of floral designs), on the theme of Remembrance. That one of them was going to be a (stylised) poppy was clear to me from the start; for the other I decided on Rosemary, which is also linked with remembrance.

Started stitching the poppy version yesterday, this is what I've got so far:

rcperryls · Post by **rcperryls** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:46 pm

Anothr Mabel masterpiece in the making!

Carole

RosemaryD · Post by **RosemaryD** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:30 pm

Lovely!

I didn't know Rosemary was linked with Remembrance, what's the history there?

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:08 pm

I think it's a quotation from Shakespeare, after Ophelia's death Hamlet talks of the flowers he will scatter on her grave (may have several details wrong here!) and mentions "Rosemary, that's for remembrance".

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 6:02 pm

Yes, Mabel, you are correct. Rosemary has been associated with death and remembrance since at least Roman times, so I presume the Greeks also followed this symbolism even earlier. Apparently scientists are now finding that something in rosemary does actually stimulate memory in the brain, so there you go.

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:30 pm

WOW another fabulous design in the works to add to the rest of the lovely Floral Lace series. Can't wait to see the rest of this and its pair.

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:48 am

Finished all the surface stitching and beading - now just the cutting and filling to do, and then on to Rosemary!

richardandtracy · Post by **richardandtracy** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:57 am

Looks really nice. Simple, restrained & dignified. Very, very appropriate.

Just one silly thing occurs to me. While most real poppies have 4 or more petals, the remembrance poppies seem to have been stylised into only 2 petals.

Regards,

Richard.

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:03 am

You're absolutely right Richard, and I don't like them

- poppies don't have two petals only unless someone picked them off! Fortunately the Royal British Legion's poppy shop also has a few commemorative poppies (in various forms, among which a brooch and an umbrella) with more petals, and the ones made for the Tower of London's moat certainly had more than two, so I felt it was a valid option.

karen4bells · Post by **karen4bells** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:50 pm

this is one of the most beautiful designs I have seen! Wow, just wow!!

RosemaryD · Post by **RosemaryD** » Thu Nov 24, 2016 3:52 pm

Mabel Figworthy wrote:I think it's a quotation from Shakespeare, after Ophelia's death Hamlet talks of the flowers he will scatter on her grave (may have several details wrong here!) and mentions "Rosemary, that's for remembrance".

Serinde wrote:Yes, Mabel, you are correct. Rosemary has been associated with death and remembrance since at least Roman times, so I presume the Greeks also followed this symbolism even earlier. Apparently scientists are now finding that something in rosemary does actually stimulate memory in the brain, so there you go.

That's very interesting, thank you!

Purple Patsy · Post by **Purple Patsy** » Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:37 am

I love the poppy design and am looking forward to seeing the Rosemary one.

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Fri Nov 25, 2016 12:53 pm

Poppy is finished

! The filling stitch is nutmeg stitch in green and red; Rosemary will use mace stitch in green and blue.

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