10" x 12"

The story of "Young Girl Reading"

For many months, when I visited the needlepoint shop, I saw a canvas that was pinned to a door. The door just happened to separate the shop from the washroom! Fortunately the canvas faced into the shop. I finally "saw it" one day when I was looking for a canvas to stitch while traveling. This canvas is a copy of the painting by Jean-Honore Frangonard titled Young Girl Reading.

My new travel piece was a delight to bring to life. It had opportunities for the intricate blending and mixing of colors that I love to stitch.

Have you ever stitched on a plane while trying to ply four stands of DMC floss in different shades in the needle without losing your thread or your scissors (that was at the time when scissors were still allowed on board)?

Although the light was poor, my work space confined, the canvas was only 22 mesh, and I worked this piece without a frame, I loved stitching it.

I decided to give this piece to my mother for Mother's Day and had it made into a cushion. Due to circumstances of old age and moving, my mother's cushion now has a place in my home and is the only needlepoint cushion that I have.

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