Thursday, March 21, 2013

Celebrating New Season

In many traditions, this is the start of the new year. The Roman year began on the ides of March (15th). The astrological year begins on the equinox when the moon moves into the first sign of the Zodiac, Aries, the Ram. The Greek God Ares is equivalent to the Roman Mars for whom the month of March is named. Between the 12th century and 1752, March 25th was the day the year changed in England and Ireland. March 25, 1212 was the day after March 24, 1211.

The spring equinox is one of the four great solar festivals of the year. Day and night are equal, poised and balanced, but about to tip over on the side of light. The spring equinox is sacred to dawn, youth, the morning star and the east. The Saxon goddess, Eostre (from whose name we get the direction East and the holiday Easter) is a dawn goddess, like Aurora and Eos. Just as the dawn is the time of new light, so the vernal equinox is the time of new life. 

I had my own celebration of this new season. I stitched! For the first day of Spring I've chose a small ornament (some day I will stitch the whole sampler) from Birdsong II by the Prairie Schooler.


I was on the roll so after finishing the stitching part I'd made an actual ornament!


Fabric: 32 Ct. Summer Sky Jobelan Evenweave
Floss: DMC 

So long my friends,
Evalina

18 comments:

  1. I love your finish! Very sweet!

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  2. Lovely! I love the blue thread you made the bird with, it's so bright!

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  3. What a cute piece. Great job on it.

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  4. Beautiful bird stitching AND finishing!!

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  5. Very cool. I use a lot of astrological references in my novel. For instance, March is the time they go to war and the month my character was born, both under an Aries sky. I love weaving that stuff into the story where I can.

    Happy Spring!

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  6. Very sweet little bird! Thanks for the info on the Roman calendar changes. As Orthodox, we still follow the Julian calendar, hence why our Christmas is Jan 7th (technically the 25th of December).

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  7. Congrats on an adorable stitch and finish. I have those charts. lol (I should say, what don't I have)

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  8. Love this design and finish! - The colors make you just feel springy...even if the weather doesn't cooperate!

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  9. What a perfect finish for spring. I have nearly all of the PS charts and never think about doing up the mini charts that come with them. Beautiful stitching.
    LindaLee at
    CrossN' My Stitches

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  10. The perfect finish to announce spring! I saw my first robin yesterday.

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  11. Eva, I love your spring ornament!

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  12. Your ornament looks really pretty.

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  13. Love Prairie Schooler--your project is perfect!

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  14. Oh, that turned out so nice! I really love the birdy and its full nest.

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