Starful

I got more of the Stars done this week. I've decided the stars are going to bered, white, blue, white red across the top. Also got the line of yellow just before them done. Easy, but it's hard to find time these days. I've actually not stitched at all two days in the past week. This is unheard-of from me.

Last of Some Blues

This week I added the last of some of the light blues on the white stripes and a bit more on the sashing coming off her waist. Still slow progress, and sometimes hard to see, but it -is- progress nonetheless.

Can It Invent Things?

I'm up to Q now. Got quite a bit more done this week, and it's getting close to being done. I'm taking it on the trip I start tomorrow. Maybe I'll be able to finish it there. It's -so- close and my husband is almost done with the frame.

Ready to Go

At the beginning of the month, I got Candi H's block for the seamy side round robin. This is how it looked when i got it. The seams are huge, wonderful fantasies.

I found it hard to work around the seams because they overlapped so much else, but I got it done. There are still two more people to work on this block, so I left room for them, too. Here's the block after I finished.

Here is a close up of one of the seams. I couched down a green velvet ribbon with French knots and chevron stitches.

This is what I did with the other seam. I made scrolls, added a butterfly, an covered the whole piece of fabric in French knots. A kind of restful place to give the eyes a break.

And finally I put her initials in a small area that needed to be filled. I hope she likes it.

Circling Around

More jessica stitches, who would've guessed? These ones are all largish circles on the inside of the center motif. When they're done, I get to put more jessicas inside of them. Wheels within wheels within wheels...

Half a Head

So Bibendum not only has a finger, he's got half a head now. It's working up fairly quickly, thankfully. I like the way he looks.

On to the Specialty Stitches

I finally finished the cross stitches for parts two and three. Yay! Now to start on the specialty stitches, and there are a lot of them. I don't think it'll take me as long with them as it did for the cross stitches, though. I still really love the way this fabric makes the design pop.