Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Tailings

The dragon's tail is very visible now.  This piece has so many confetti and partial stitches that it's challenging.

Framed Bayeux

MolDeco did another great job on this little shield from France.  I think Andreas is going to hang it near his blue dragon.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Working Around

There's a big counting mistake in this that I will fudge and fake a fix to.  When I started up top, I miscounted the distance to the top of the peacock.  This is a HUGE reason why I hate non-overlapping charts.  Anyway, it should be pretty easy to fix and will mean the piece is wider than designed.

And The Winner Is....

This is the piece that won technical competence and people's choice at the needlework exhibition.  I think it came out very very good framed.  People were also astonished that I would pay so much just for the materials for it - at least the cross stitchers who knew prices were.  The materials alone for this cost as much as a person's salary here for a month.

Marching Along

One daffodil's almost done and I'm almost halfway down with this.  

Sunday, March 29, 2015

On The Leaf

The instructions for the fillings are all overall and not individual motifs.  I've decided to do them individually because it sends a bit of accomplishment with each of them done.

Thank You, Luca-S!

For the technical excellence prize, I received all these nice things from Luca-S.  The pillow kit is on a premade pillow.  I also got a 1500 lei (approximately $85) certificate from them.  I need to figure out how to spend it.  They gave me a catalog to see what I can get, even!