Up close

I did a really closeup so you can see what I did today.  Finally, I finished the last pair of silver Jap around the
outside.  Next I moved back to the copper and gold.  I extended the copper cross stitches done on the  right by adding diagonal stitches to each leg using the copper cord.  Then I am coming back and adding two diagonal and one straight stitch over the top of the gold pairs.  Hope that makes sense!  Very slow going and doesn't look like I got much done, however, each of the stitches has to go under the gold pairs.