Work in Progress.

This sampler is one of the UFOs I selected to finish this year. It was a Round robin from 2003, and only needed borders and stuff to finish it off. Originally I assumed I would probably frame it, but now that I'm running out of walls to hang things, most of my embroideries will be incorporated into patchwork throws or table runners, and this is one of them. I wanted to use some Aboriginal Art fabric to do the border, but it didn't look right on its own. My good mate Cheryl dropped around tonight to cast her expert eye over my project, and she suggested that I have two borders - a narrow border of one colour against the edge of the sampler, and a wider edge of the Aborig.art fabric on the outside. I liked the concept, but now I can't make up my mind which of the plain colours looks better - the sand colour, or the tan. They both go with the art fabric. (Don't look closely at the sampler itself; I still have a bit of stitching to do to finish it off before I add the borders.)