One Last Celtic Block

This is Rebecca's block, the last for me to work on in the Celtic round robin.  As you can see, there're really not much space left.  She's making a book cover for her husband out of it, and so has requested no beads and a masculine feel.

This is how it looked once I was done with it.  I added two motifs and two seams.  One motif is the abstract tree below the cross, and the other is three spirals made by Andreas.  Even though she said no beads, they're not beads and the spirals look nice on there.  I hope she approves.  The two seams are also there, though they're not very visible.

All Dolled Up and Ready to Go

So here is the pillow all made up.  The recipient liked it a lot, and it was a really quick stitch!

More Lattice

'This week I added more black-ish, which makes up the mortar between bricks.  I also did some work on the back stitching in the earlier part.  I finished the blue flowers on the upper right and also the blue line there.  Also started the backstitching on the lower left. 

Lesson Learned

The instructions for the punto antico biscornu we're doing in CyberStitchers as a project call for size 8 pearl cotton.  Silly me, I decided color was more important than size.  So I tried my Watercolours, which breaks down into size 5 pearl.  As you can see from looking at this, it looks all clunky and odd. 

So... I'll be starting over.  Luckily for me, I won a great big stash of Weeks Dye Works threads and they came in this week.  I'll be using those!  And yes, I'll have a picture and explanation of my win later this week.  Stay tuned!

A Bit More Gold

When the picture(s) for this were taken last week, I was not done with my rotation's worth for the day.  So you get another picture this week.  I finished it up with some gold on the bottom right.

Plugging In

Working on the last bits of the mandala, yay.  Still got a lot to go, but it's definitely going to be done on time.  I have -all- the rest of the chart.  Now to get this done so I can catch up on the German Group Mystery, which I only have until the middle of September to complete.

Middling

I'm filling in the middle of this side now, all orange and blue.  It's at least going fairly quickly.