Wedding monogram: A & J
Hand embroidered in embroidery cotton on linen by Mary Addison
I have embroidered quite a few of these intertwined monograms as wedding presents but when it comes to doing something for family members, it becomes much more complicated.
Wedding monogram: left hand side detail of honeysuckle
I still like the white on white (see here, here and here) best but daughter No 1 kept suggesting coloured initials – at first blue was the ideal colour but then again perhaps red would be rather wonderful. By the time I came to making a pair of interlinked initials to commemorate her wedding, I was completely confused about which she preferred, so I went for red – but just to make sure I gave the intertwining honeysuckle a the odd touches of pink, yellow, magenta and of course green for the leaves.
Wedding monogram: right hand side detail of honeysuckle
Fortunately she loved it and the framed initials now sit happily on a red dining room wall beneath a picture of her and her husband outside the church on their wedding day.
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What a lovely heirloom.
Making things for family is always more complicated than for others, I find. My family is very particular on the things I knit–especially the “itch” factor. But now they all want handknit socks and I have promised each a pair per year since two of them have very, very large feet.
Your socks sound wonderful and your family as so lucky that you have persevered and found the right sort of wool for them.