Oh boy! I'm doing a Happy Dance! The Gardener's Alphabet is up and running on my website. I'm so excited to see it published.
Each letter is a separate pattern, 10-11 pages, and sold separately.
Please take a look! It is the first pattern on the (new) Counted Needlepoint page.
I hope you will find a letter or two that you like! They are fun to stitch and are great stash busters! Except for the background, you don't need a whole skein of hardly any of the colors.
Back in the 80s I used to do charting for Needlepoint News. One of the big projects I did was Jim Williams' Gardener's Alphabet Rug. All 26 letters, each with a flower starting with that letter. Each was a square of a rug.
Recently, I got in touch with Williams and he gave me permission to redo the charts on the computer, color coded to DMC (instead of Paternayan), for 18-count, and to offer the designs for sale on my website. Each letter will be a separate pattern. (I'm not doing it as a rug.) This is counted, so it is suitable for cross stitch as well as needlepoint.
Well, this turned out to be quite a big job, but it is nearly finished. I have an army of stitchers piloting for me and I hope to have all of the letters ready and up on my website by the end of October. When they are ready, I'll announce it here on blog.
This H is one that I did on 20-count canvas with DMC floss and a few stitches of Kreinik.
