Golden Centers

The original directions called for the bargello circles to be filled with ecru eyelets in size 12 perle ... it faded into the background, like the elongated stitches do, but worse. So I used Kreinik braid on them. I think it looks a lot better. I also added really fine gold cord to the elongated cross stitches to make them a bit less subtle too. After this picture was taken, I've finished the bottom row of the red "flowers" and am almost done with the side row of them. There are filling stitches and such on them, too.

Ribbon and Roses Redux

Because this hasn't been seen in a few weeks, I had my husband just take a picture of it all. He split it up. Since I just picked this up again last week, the only thing that's progressed in the pictures is the whitish peyote stitched inner rose. I got it completed. Since this picture was taken, I've added two more inches to the strap (the tiny black bit of peyote stitch). My daughter loves it so far.

Panda - a Color Other Than Black

Since I'm working on the second half, I get to add some color to the work other than black. It's going fairly quickly because I took it as my mobile project on Friday and had a lot of time away from home to work on it. I'm still on schedule for it, I think. I'm just pleased that I can see progress on everything this week. It's a good feeling.

New Start - ANG Auction Piece

I volunteered to stitch a piece for the ANG auction during seminar next year. This is what they sent me. I got a really good deal on a lot of Sheep's Silk from Thread Gatherer on ebay, so I'm using it to stitch the piece. As you can see, I barely started it before Timothy took the picture. It's due back to the coordinator by March first. I'll be putting some specialty stitches in it, but I have to figure out where looks best. I've already gotten all the green done in the upper left square and about half of the green done in the upper right.

Goldwork Practice and Stem

I managed to do the dimensional couching on the practice sampler, but have decided I'm going to trim all those ends instead of plunge them. The privileges of it being a practice piece. On the other hand, I've started couching the stems on the main piece. As of this afternoon, the gold twist is lined with copper and copper also is on the biggest curlicue on the lower left. The last bit of the stems and curlicues will have the gold and copper twist on it and I'll get to it this week and then plunge all the ends as they say to. I'm finding that when I actually do stitching on this, it goes really quickly.

Elegant Diamond Finished

Here's the diamond done stitching. My husband finally managed to get the green background fabric green. He's still working on how to get white fabric white. Anyway, I really like this design and will probably make a few more. They go quickly once the center diamond is done. Pictures of this will be taken again once it's mounted on its box.

Plugging Away on the Chatelaines

Well, I got more done on both of these, though it's hard to see much progress. I'm halfway done with the third corner on the Medieval Town Mandala and the arch is still being filled in on the Midi Mystery. I still didn't get much stitching time this week outside of when I was waiting at other places - which means I couldn't work on these. They're not as easily transported as some other things. This coming week, though, is a holiday week and we have no visitors coming in sooooo.... maybe.... I can get some more done on them. I'm feeling bad about their slow progress.