A Stitcher's Start

This was my first completed cross stitch, a gift I made for my mother at 16 (I believe there may have been a cat cross stitch where a line of felines were meowing at the moon, but I was 10 and it is long gone!). Watching flosstube tutorials for my Chatelaine prompted me to tell my origin story, as so many do, and low and behold I discovered specialty stitches!

A little bump of confidence is exactly what I needed for my first Mandala!

The Maiden