A Bluestocking Knits

Page seven of the nine-page chart for the "Quaker Virtues" sampler.  I had been feeling for a while that the border would look more finished with two lines of stitches instead of one, so I went back to the other side and have begun adding in another line.  I'm quite content with my rather agonized choice of three shades of Antique Blue — blue and white china being always pleasing to my eye — which makes the eternity that this thing is taking into a journey, not an arrival-to-be (!).  Laura — who to my astonishment and delight has decided after working a set of small cross-stitch pictures that she actually likes this hobby — frequently asks me, "How far along are you now?" and I sigh and say, "Not halfway yet," but I think I've passed that mark without even noticing, since page 4, the one above what I've just finished, is in fact the only remaining full-page of the chart, and the rest are all partial pages.