Senior Year Pillow

Today I picked up my “wedding party” needlepoint pillow all finished and ready for the sofa. It was good timing since Carter’s graduation is about a month away. This pillow represents my needlepoint work during her senior year. I started it as she was going off on senior challenge. I worked it during basketball games all through the winter and I finished stitching it as she was making plans to go to Berlin for her freshman year first semester at Northeastern.
Carter may be leaving us for but now I can go sit in the living room and look at my whimsical bird pillow and think about all the fun I had stitching in during her last year home.
I am thrilled with the material Lane Blank found for the backing and the piping and as usual Nancy at Chapel Hill Needlepoint finished it beautifully. It was a long labor of love. I counted something like sixty different colors in it all in tiny eighteen count. It was my senior year of needlepoint. It was the AP of pillows.  
Now I am back to ornaments that I can do quickly and simply. Kind of like my senioritis of needlepoint. Small and mindless. Thankfully I don’t think I will ever graduate from needlepoint.