A Bluestocking Knits

Well, how about this for a flashback?  It is another thing I found in the closet — my first cross-stitch!  I remember falling in love with the picture in a catalog and sending away for it, though I’d never done cross-stitch before — I’d puttered around with embroidery, and earned my Girl Scout badge for sewing, but it was rather brave of me.  I loved the rather Arts & Crafts-y look of it — I see the relationship quite clearly now, although at the time I had no idea, of course.

(I remember that some years later a companion piece came out, a man in similar pseudo-Renaissance dress, with “While Ye May” on his scroll.  He looked a bit dorky, though, so I’ve let this girl gather her rosebuds on her own.)