This is the piece that won technical competence and people's choice at the needlework exhibition.  I think it came out very very goo...

After nearly ten years I have finally finished my Medieval Town Mandala.  It is currently framed and waiting for me to pick it up.  I fee...

Two weeks in Krakow did not help this piece get done.  It's got a bit more than half of the beading to go, and I do feel the need to...

I had hoped to have more beading done.  Unfortunately, our rental apartment is not conducive to beading.  I've been trying.  I truly...

The cross stitches are all in and I've started beading away!  Yay!

I am on the last corner of cross stitch.  After this it's beading and backstitch.  That means this is soooo close to being done I ha...

Almost all of the third corner is done.  I've not been stitching as much as I need to, so it's not complete.

I am now officially on the third corner.  Go me!

Evidently Andreas had a hard time fitting both areas I was working on this week into the photo.  This was his solution.  I have one corn...

I am so very close to finishing off this first corner.  It feels so good to get this almost done.

I am done with squaring the mandala up!  It's time to fill in the corners and start in on the beading.

I am nine tenths of the way done with the border bars!  That means I am so much closer to being done.

I'm now working on the final corner, yay!  It's on the way to being truly done, though I think I will end up spending a couple o...

Closer and closer I creep!  Two and a half corners done, one and a half to go.

I now have a third corner started and a second one finished in this step.  I love the progress I'm making and looking forward to hav...

I feel so good about my progress on this project!  The second corner is almost done and the backstitching in the lower left progresses ...

This has officially gotten too big for Andreas to take a photo of easily, so the bottom's cut off.  I still am doing some backstitch...

Now down to the side on the first corner.  It's coming along pretty well, and I like the look of it.  The middle left building is al...

I can't stop smiling about this piece because I'm officially working on the borders!  Yay!  The last building of the last side i...

I have only one tower and part of a building to go to have -all- the buildings done on the mandala.  It's making me excited to be so...