Grace and Sovereignty...
Sounds like a pretty deep and ponderous post, yeah?
Well, it's not..
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The design is by Stacy Nash and was stitched on 40-Count "Boardwalk" linen by Colour and Cotton, using the mostly called-for DMC flosses. Many liberties were taken with the original design to accommodate my OCD.
(Marly (Samplers and Santas) would be so very proud.)
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If the frame looks vaguely familiar, it is.
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This was the second piece I took to a local artist for framing, the first being Noel Sampler by With Thy Needle and Thread.
(Did I share the framed finish of that or not? I can't seem to find it in older posts. In any event, here it is:)
As you can see, they are the exactly same frame.
This was completely unintentional on both my and the framer's part.
If nothing else, I guess I am consistent.
(I prefer "consistent" to unimaginative.)
And Sovereignty...
Sovereignty is the horse that won this year's Kentucky Derby.
For many (many) years, our neighbors have hosted a Kentucky Derby party.
(I know I've posted about at least one of them before, but the posts don't show in the searches as I apparently wasn't using labels back then.)
It's been a few years since I've actually gone to one of the parties, but this year I broke hermitage and went.
Each year they do it up better.
There are mint juleps, horse betting (and other forms of gambling - scratch offs, pull tabs, bingo -all with a horsey theme), and an amazing spread of food.
This year, the track was a muddy mess, and I was grateful none of the horses were injured.
The horse, Journalism, was favored to win but (ironically??), Sovereignty beat out Journalism, and Baeza came in third.
Although I've been a bit out of the derby loop for a while, I actually did well in the betting - winning the first place ("win") pool, the third place ("show") pool, and even the trifecta pool.
Yeeesss!!
Sometimes walking amongst the living isn't so very awful.
