CORNWALL SAMPLER

After a busy morning packing kits, we zipped down to Penzance on a long-overdue errand this afternoon.  This Cornwall sampler kit continues to sell steadily since first launched a couple of years ago.  Made up of little motifs, and stitched on 14 count fabric, it is quick and fun to do.  Designing on this scale can be tricky, and often some of the more obvious content is left out simply because it just doesn't work.  I refuse to include half or straight stitches, which could occasionally correct the visual, preferring to design using full cross stitches only on the 14 count.

So, with reasonable success, I did manage to put in Truro Cathedral with the viaduct behind, St.Michael's Mount, choughs, the flag of St Piran, a tin mine, the Bishop Rock Lighthouse, the round houses at Veryan (on the Roseland), fishing boats (based on those at Newlyn), palm trees, a crab, stylised sunflowers for the Eden Project, seagulls and sandcastle, a cream tea, a Kernow mermaid, the Arms of the Duchy... oh, and Cornish Yawl No 1, originally built at Rock and launched at Lostwithiel - our boat 'Greta', back in Cornish waters once again after a muddy time in Suffolk!