blue moon . . .

When I was laying together all the green scraps

for another stitching piece

there suddenly was a blue moon on one of them ...

Well, clearly that was it :

"Blue Moon"

it should be.

(ahhhh ... and that old Blue Moon song from long ago, by Ella or by Billy )

The piece from scratch

(or should I say : from scraps ?)

halfway through ...

working from all sides

And then the finished piece

front                    and                     back

Some more details of the stitching.

Just very simple stitches :

running stitch (kantha or sometimes flat stitch)

and buttonhole stitch

in silk  and cotton or rayon embroidery floss.

Stitching I did outside in the garden,

but when it was too HOT ... I fled inside !

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B.t.w. garden ...

THIS

is what I'm doing to my New Dawn rose right now :

a severe case of

black spot  !

(I think I'll have to spray, next year ...)

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But other things are doing great !!!

Perovskia

Thalictrum delavayi

Phlox (Utopia)