Another Blast From The Past

Since I'm staying at my sister's house until the electricity is restored in mine, I can't play with fabric. 

However.

  I painted this oil painting of a colored beach towel hanging on a wall in 1987. It's about 28" x 40". My sister bought it and it hangs in her house.

Here's a detail.

It's fun to revisit artwork you did 24 years ago.

**Update

There are now about 89,000 homes without power in NH. (On Thursday the number was 200,000.) Mine is one of them. This is the fourth largest power outage in NH ever. They expect to have all power restored by the end of the day on Monday. I sure do hope mine is connected before then.  

Millie and I are fine.

A Blast From The Past

Way back when, before I started making quilts, I did embroidery and then I got into needlepoint and later, into Bargello. 

This is about an eight inch section of a piece I made in college. Here's the whole thing.

I originally made this to be the seat of a carved side chair, but I parted with the chair years ago. This has been kept in a drawer for close to thirty-five years.

Question is, what do I do with it? I can't seem to just toss it in the trash. Here's another needlepoint piece I made at that time. This was an original pattern I designed.