Tree of life

This little nine ball tree was the very first start of my
collaboration with Mieke and Veronik.
Lets say, this is the primal tree :-), it dates from
before the shop.
I remember M & V were always making plans for
their would-be shop; of course nobody was taken
them seriously, even for me, it was hard sometimes
to believe in their project.
But one day, the shop was a fact, at least ,
they got a loan.
So....


they went to see my work.
I have this sampler embroidery hanging on the wall.
It is a big cloth of joined together smal pieces of canvas.
Large parts of the sampler are needle lace tryouts
(i will show in another post), but i got bored
after a time and the lacing was not making progress
quickly enough; i just wanted to have that work
finished so i could hang it on the wall.
So...

... I filled up the empty parts with trees, most of

them were taken over from designs i had seen on

old samplers, sometimes i was adding some

corrections or fantasies.

Anyway, it was fun to do :-)

Ok, to cut a long story short, they both choose

for the nine ball tree; we decided to make a series

of pincushions for the shop.

That's that.

I went to see the chopped tree in the garden

this morning...

... isn't that a stunning colour match!

i mean, with the flaked off shed :-)