Consider the Lilies started 08/23 as part of a SAL with Jo Kramer of Jo’s Country Junction. She has since moved on to other things.

Projects finished in-between:

• Manor House 2025
• Fabulous houses 2025
• Birth Sampler 2025
• Punch needle Halloween 2024
• Halloween cat/moon 2024
• Snowman pillow 2025

I had put this project on the back burner when I started the Fabulous houses in January 2024. Once finished with that house-a-month, I pulled everything out, once again, into my stitching area. I have a chair and light with a Lowery stand set up with a small cart in a corner of my bedroom. All of my stitching supplies are in the sewing room, this little spot stays neat and organized for the one project I am working on.

I have been steadily working on this since restarting it last May. I put it aside for June and July to do a Birth Sampler. Then restarted with the intent to finish by the end of 2025.

Once the Summer was over, I worked at a more steady pace. I put the last stitches in on 3/10/26.

I’m not sure how I want to frame this, it’s large, I will need to go get a foam core board and figure out how much of an outer border of white I want to show. A mat might be nice too, but it would add more size. Stitching this piece reminded me of making a tapestry, like the medieval ones. People spent hours and hours on them, with little light and limited materials. Well, that part isn’t similar, but telling a story with the stitching is. I think that’s why I enjoyed stitching the Long Dog Sampler of Pilgrims Progress, the story of the stitching.

Be Kind.