Thursday Art Date with Rain: Diagonal

 I really need to learn to NOT always focus on painting and drawing, when it comes to the themes for Thursday Art Date with Rain. *LOL* I was thinkiing so hard about what to draw for "Diagonal". 

I'm doing lots of crossstitch lately and finished some items during the two lockdowns we had in Germany so far due to Covid. My latest piece is a small tablecloth I had in my stash unfinished for several years now. The edging was sooooo time consuming, but now I'm on the homestretch with just two corner motifs to go. That tablecloth is even double diagonal: Celtic knotwork and cross stitch.

That's the center motif, designed by German embroidery designer Ellen Moschitz.

And since I wanted smaller corner motifs, I downsized the knot myself.

This tea towel is another lockdown finish. It sat in my stash for several years, too. This will not go into the kitchen , but be used as a tablecloth for one of my smaller tables I have in my apartment.

This table cloth was also finished some weeks ago. I started this during a vacation in Italy in 2000 (!) and ran out of embroidery thread. A friend, who lives there, helped me hunting for the correct colors of thread at several markets and small shops and we managed to get all the correct colors.Love how this one turned out. Smells like summer. And reminds me to make some jars of lemon curd. :)

And last but not least I finished these little framed pictures with half cross stitch. They will look great in my new kitchen. :)

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