Design - "Cranberry Deer Pinkeep" Designer - Beehive Needlework
Fabric - 32 count Flax Belfast linen
Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads
Started - 2 December 2011
Completed - 4 December 2011
This turned out to be the perfect weekend stitch. I found it very soothing to work with just one color of thread - the border and the Quaker Star in the center made the design interesting to stitch too.
Sunday afternoon my Mother and I went to see a display of several hundred creches at a local church. It was interesting to see the many different sizes, styles, materials, and configurations. Here are a few of my favorites.
Some of the creches had small cards explaining the history of the creche. This one was hand carved in Switzerland in the mid-1970's. The carver used faces of people in his village; he used his own face for the Shepherd on the right.
This creche was made of heavy card stock.
I thought this creche sweet - great for a young child.
This is a close-up of one of the figures of an Asian creche - all made out of circles of cut paper - very unique.
Sometimes less is more - I liked the simplicity of this creche display.
This one had the most interesting use of light.
Again less is more - simple corn husk figures from Kenya.
I have a small collection of about a dozen nativity scenes. Each is so very different, yet all share the same imagery and theme.
