Traditional Norwegian embroidery

[KitSileya]

2. Thank you.

And quite a lot of hours, especially these last 6 weeks. It would have been such a shame not to finish it before this year's 17. of May.

It was quite a learner's piece, lemme tell you. The instructions were copies from old carbon copies from the 60s, and I had no idea what some of the stitches were. I had to dig into the old books at the library to find some of them. And there's tons of mistakes that I made as I went along simply because I had never done something like this before. I thought about that as I embroidered - this is based on really old ones they found in the back of closets of old farms, and stuffed into pillows and whatnot. What if some of the things we now consider hallow, like the non-symmetry of the pattern between the roses in the main border, is because the crafter miscounted the first one, and then kept going rather than unravel it?