FRIDAY FIDDLING

I planned to use the last hour of Friday to look at tidying up the Royal Residences Sampler, but got distracted by this instead.  It is an amalgamation of borders and bits from one of the Birthday Card designs, which I have switched to a black background.  I find there is something quite friendly about it and if a good amount of pattern variation were developed, it could work.  Although pretty-ish, it is fairly pointless as it is - but I am thinking of using it for a festive sampler with a Christmas message stitched within the inner border.  Windmill turns into Christmas tree, cake into a pile of presents, wheat ears into pine branches, birdies into robins, swans into geese. The majority seem to want greens with red for Christmas stitching, but I prefer the pinks, reds and greys showing already.  Perhaps we could offer a second version on white with greens?  I will come back to it another day...