Australia sampler

Years ago my mother started this Australia sampler for my father. She got a poor eyesight over the years, so now I’m going to finish it for my parents. I share a weekly update to keep me going.

Good progress this week. First I finished the cross stitches on the fish.

Such a difference with the backstitches added!

Then I stitched the flowers below the fish. Not much different colours and large parts in the same colour, so it didn’t take much time to finish it.

Again a huge difference when I added the backstitches.

And this is how the Australia sampler looks now. The next part is bigger and will take much more time.