Artifact of the Month: A Rebus

For this month’s artifact, we bring you a needlework rebus, which belongs to a department member.  Can you figure out the saying that is encoded in the puzzle?  Let’s see if anyone can guess the answer before we reveal it in the next Sesquip!  Email your guesses to sesquip [at] gmail.com (sesquip[at]gmail[dot]com) by next Wednesday, December 8.