pictured with rosh hashanah flowers. probably not looking too different from the last time you saw it. but i have been working on it a lot; in fact, it's most of the handwork i did in september.
still planning, for now, on using it in the grotto, at least to start with. we have, though, recently made some changes to our plans for the house, and are, it seems, going to have a good bit more house than we thought we were (then again, there may eventually be twice as many of us living here). the room that is now our den will probably become a dining room as the den moves up to the third floor; in that case, the canvaswork eggplant -- and perhaps some of the other vegetables in the series -- would do well in a dining room. perhaps even as chair cushion covers! as intended in the kit, i believe.
i like canvaswork. i don't know why cross-stitch is such a big ugly fuddy-duddy turnoff to me, but it is. canvaswork looks so much better to my eye. i want to make vests, and slippers, and bags, and whatnot. but moreover, i want to not have to use kits; i want artist friends to draw or paint right on my hardanger, and do custom stuff. i know folks who do this with knotted rugs and i like that too as long as it's going on a wall; i am really opposed to rugs on floors these days (too many dogs and cats to make any rug anything but a horrible, festering scrapbook of smells and cast-off bits of protein.)
so! my canvaswork eggplant. i am enjoying it. it takes a long, long time, which is always something i look for in a project.