An example of when a piece of fabric jumps into your hands and tells you to get embroidering.  I made this several years ago.  You can see by the fadedness of the graph paper that I’d drawn in out years and years earlier.

This is unorthodox. I made a servetka in reverse.  Usually the centre and maybe a segment around the edge are left blank and the design is embroidered around four sides of a servetka.  Here I wanted to turn that idea around and embroider the whole piece, with a white segment of little stars representing where the design would usually be located, and blue stars filling in the bulk of the fabric, which would usually be left blank.

Here it is in the making and as a finished product.

The fabric:  A fine antique white linen, 28 count, I think most likely by Zweigart.

The form:  Servetka.

The colours:  DMC stranded embroidery cotton.  Dark blue 930, light blue 931, white Blanc.  Used in three strands

The design:  From the book “Українські вишивки” (Ukrajinski vyshyvky,) Ukrainian Embroideries, by Maria Kutsenko; plate number 69, attributed to the Poltava region of Ukraine INSPIRATIONS.

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