"ABC BABY YOU AND ME"

This is a sampler I began before Xmas 

that I purchased from my new favorite crafts store in Ojai called Cattywampus.

They were featuring it as a class but I wanted to give it a try on my own.

I have a lovely array of perle cottons that I've collected over the years,

not the exact colors called for in the pattern picture,

but I tried to get mine to match as close as possible.

The pix above is how much I got done before Xmas 

and the pix below is the finished sampler that I finished in January.

Both my son and daughter saw me working on it and wanted to know who I was making it for,

each hinting that they liked it.

Then my son Zach told me who'd really enjoy it was his new sister-in-law Jamie

who is newly pregnant with her first baby.

She and her husband are the sweetest young couple

 who are redoing an old Craftsman in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas.

Zach told me she's crazy about plants and uses them to decorate every room in her home.

 And he also thought it would look great in the baby's room.

When Zach's mother-in-law Mary saw it recently done, 

she told me Jamie is decorating the baby's room in a jungle theme in the colors I put in the sampler.

So Dallas, Texas,

 here it comes!

Woo Hoo!!!

So now I just need to find a frame for it.

If there is anyone out there who has framed a sampler,

do you suggest I put it under glass?

Not sure how to deal with it.

Liz from Texas,

how did you frame out all your incredible samplers?

In case anyone would like this pattern I photoed the maker here.