A posting or two ago, I showed pics of a tapestry that I embroidered long ago and far away, when I was in art school: Lady Godiva

I decided that some day, I would give it to my first born child.  She now owns it, and it feels like a  promise has been kept.

It took about a year of intense embroidering to complete Lady Godiva, and then I began a second embroidered piece that I decided would some day belong to my second born child.

I fell in love with a small black and white photograph of  a medieval carving of Eve, by the sculptor Giselbertus.

I embroidered an homage to that sculptor and the sculpture.   I had always told my children that the tapestries belonged to them, but my son took a long time to get comfortable with owning Giselbertus’ Eve Revisited.

He loves it now, and he and his wife  have taken possession of it.

Here are some pics of it………

I googled to see if I could find a pic of the  actual sculpture, and I did! So, here’s a pic I found on the web of the original sculpture

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More than 30 years ago, when I was young and children were only a distant dream, I sat down and embroidered some tapestries for those dream children.

Not long after, I met the man of my dreams, and we fell in love and have stayed and deepened and grown in love.

AND…. the best part is……. we did have those 2 dream children.

Our wonderful daughter has just taken home one of the embroidered tapestries: Lady Godiva………

I embroidered Lady Godiva with the intention that someday, my first born child would take this tapestry and know that it was a pledge of friendship between us. And, every time she looks at the tapestry, she’ll know that she was welcomed, wanted, waited for, cherished and loved.

And, some day, I hope that there will be another young woman who will pat the Lady Godiva tapestry and say:

‘I had a grandmother who lived and loved well!’

If you ever happen upon Lark publishing’s first Fiber Arts Design book, there’s a tiny pic of this tapestry in it.

This is what our daughter and her husband took home with them this evening:

Here are more pics of Lady Godiva……

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