Every month, on the 10th, Rachel the Ten Hour Stitcher hosts the Fully Finished Gallery SAL. I had finished stitching a small piece a few days ago, and seeing this SAL pop up was just the push I needed to keep the momentum up and FFO it right away.
First, the FO ("finished object" - the completed stitching, but not made into anything yet). This was a piece I had started over a year ago. I had wanted to stitch a sampler with an alphabet, but not a large one. I had been toying with the idea of combining parts of the 3 pieces of Be Kind Be Brave Be You, a freebie by Whilst Iris Naps, into one small sampler with just one alphabet. However, I never worked out anything I liked. In the end, I decided to go as small as possible and just stitch the alphabet that I liked. I also took some inspiration from October House Fiber Arts and their Skinny Minis and rearranged the alphabet into a long skinny layout with just 2 rows of letters instead of 3.
This was stitched on 18 count antique white Aida with 2 strands of an unidentified variegated blue from Vikki Clayton's HDF silks. Even as a small piece, life happened and/or I lost interest after getting about 3/4 of the way through, and it sat for months before I decided a few days ago to finish stitching it. It only took one sitting to do so.
Then, I decided I should FFO ("fully finished object"; when used as a verb, it means to make an FFO) it so I could share it with the FFG SAL, so I found some quilting cotton for the back and made a pillow. And here it is.
That's lovely, it's always satisfying to turn a FO into a FFO isn't it 😁
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