Adding Some Rice

I added rice stitches along the border this week. There is supposed to be a marked difference between the one strand and two strand rice stitches, but it's less noticeable that the directions imply. Anyway, the major part of the piece is done. Now I'm gliding down the back half.

Acanthus Forming

I got some of the acanthus formed on the second egg and all the dark green on the second line, since the first one is done. Things are coming along nicely, and it was the last of the stuff that got two rounds of work this week. You can really tell the difference between just two and four needles-ful of floss.

More Alien Figures

I added more to the top border of band ten. It still looks like Space Invaders to me. I'm sure that wasn't the intent in the seventeenth century. Maybe the video game designers got the idea from blackwork?

A House Done

The house just left of the middle building is done! Yay, it's the first on the upper level of that side done. I also cleared out a lot more brown in the side - to the point where I don't have all that much more brown to do. I'll be glad of the brown break.

Still Brown

I finished another of the cream panels in the skirt this week and did some darker brown on the side. The flounce on the right is started, too. She got worked on twice, so it's pretty easy to see the extra work versus two weeks ago.

Three in One

These blocks are from the Whatever Goes round robin sponsored by the CQ Embellishers group. Sandi sent three small squares to work on. They're to be part of a larger quilt. The top three pictures are of the blocks before I worked on them. There are two more people to send to before they get back to Sandi, so I couldn't do too much.

These three pictures are of the blocks after my work. The only "special" thing worth noting is the dark flower on the all blue block. It is part of the trim I bought in Plovdiv and seems to fit there perfectly.

Lining Up

This too was worked on twice this past week. I'm sooo close to the halfway point that I'll reach it next time I work on it.