I meant to save this one until I'd finished up a couple of my other present UFO's, but ... it was just too tempting. April 5, I broke down and started stitching the first corner medallion. Lots of work in there! But it follows a set pattern, and that makes it much easier than things like The Castle, where everything is shaded and colors seem to appear randomly. I think I could learn to like samplers! And yes, I do believe this is my first.
Rather than babbling too much about the piece, I'll just give you a few little thumbnails of what I've done so far. If you want to see what the finished piece should look like -- and what kind of a project I'm getting myself into -- you can hop over to Teresa's site, and look at the information on the EGS. It's an amazing piece, and she won a Golden Needle award for it, which I think was well deserved!
Here is my work on it so far:
