The Beer

For months each worked in solitude to complete their piece. At the appointed time they all gathered together to show what they had wrought and to drink good beer and share good company.  Above is the results.  The piece is called 'Paradise Lost' and is by Plum Street Samplers.  From top to bottom they are by The Smithy, The Merchant Queen, the Trickster, and the Bard. (Sorry for the glare off the glass).

In telling their own stories of how the piece went it was discovered that the Bard was first to complete heres and is the only one with it framed.  I, the Smithy, completed second, but have not yet talked to the framer about his craft.  The Merchant Queen and the Trickster are not yet done with their stitching, but very close and it is the claim of the Trickster that she is more done because she has already purchased the frame as you can see her laying over her piece.  But that debate continues. 

In any case it was the Merchant Queen and the Trickster who bought the rounds yestereve and a rousing time was had by all. The group swelled by two as the Dowager Merchant who had ruled prior to the Merchant Queen joined in the boisterous fun as well as the Village School Mistress who teaches all from the merest child to the oldest oldster their stitches and the latest forms and patterns.