Dear Tami, she has done it all her life! She went to the Royal School of Needlework and the stuff she produced was amazing. Even now at nearly eighty years old she is still making these marvelous things, and why not?
She loves her gardening and her plants, and of course cooking and sewing! Pity the youngsters are not interested in it at all anymore, it is I am afraid a dying art, and that is a most terrible shame!
I have done it and my wife is red hot at cross stitch, and both of us enjoy it when we get the time.
I personally think there is nothing better than to get a Hand sewn Birthday/Anniversary/Christmas card, of a plant you love.
Regards.
Neil.