A Terrific Diversion

I do this all the time, and the results always thrill me.  How many times have I started a commission and then did a 360 by throwing myself headlong into a completely different project!?  It's like a need a quick creative break from the pressure of meeting a deadline or request.  I did it again.  As I sat pondering how I would finish the Denmark piece, and how I would start my cousin's memory quilt, I looked up on my design wall at this photo I took 2 springs ago of the flooded prairie.  the photo has been sitting there for 2 years.  Waiting.  But this time, in an instant, I KNEW how to do it!  I pulled out my supplies and finished this much on Sunday morning, prior to Jane's garage sale.

It made so much sense!  I looked at the photo and said out loud:  The sky and the water are the same.  Poof!  It made so much sense to stitch out all the green and leave the sky fabric as the water.  I had contemplated many times how I would stitch out the water when in fact, the key to this piece is not stitching the water at all!  Eureka.

I took a break from that, and sorted my new threads into color packs...

Yeah!  All that 

for the price of this:

Three shades of chartreuse = LOVE

Monday morning, before running off to host a class for Horizon owners, I completed this flooded prairie scene by adding some hand stitched trees and birds.   Can I tell you that I LOVE THIS!?

Flooded Prairie, 2012

I'm so proud of this one.  It was pure joy for me to stitch in about a dozen different greens. It's all finished and ready to frame.  It's a bit bigger than 6x8", which is twice the size of my little ones.

: )

Linking to WIP Wednesday at The Needle & Thread Network.