Bernadette Framed

Here she is!  She is first surrounded by a black glittered mat with the orange on top of that one.  Her very dark purple frame highlights all the purple in her "witchly" coutured outfit.

It is Bernadette

Yes, she is all done but the framing.  I finished her hair with the Estaz first.  I then added all the Mill Hill embellishments she called for.  She has a black star at the end of her hat, the half moon on the hat, two red star cheeks, a pumpkin at her throat, bicones for buttons on her cape, two green leaves on the pumpkins, and more stars, iridescent ones, on her shoes.  I lastly added a strand of purple Estaz at the bottom of her cape and couched it down with a single strand of Balger blending filament.  Her name was then stitched with purple ribbon!  She is a happy witch ready for fun!

Shoes plus

I admit it.  I could not stand it.....it is so close to being stitched and all the fun stuff is coming up!  LOL   So,
I stitched the shoes in basketweave with the ribbon floss.Then, I added the stem on the pumpkin.  And on to the fun stuff--her hair is stitched with orange Estaz!  I love this part!  I hope to finish her stitching tomorrow!

Two areas

Today I did the underskirt first.  It is worked with six strands of black floss and a strand of Kreinik purple blending filament in a diagonal stitch.  Next, I also did another diagonal stitch over two for the rust and over three for the green Kreinik ribbons to create her socks.  She is quite proud of her socks!

Pumpkin

I stitched Bernadette's pumpkin!  It is done with six strands of DMC floss with three strands of two different colors blended along with q/16 ribbon in Kreinik 027 using alternating rows for the Byzantine stitch.  I ran out of time to get the stem done, but all of the pumpkin is done.

Almost dressed

I finished working the dress with the rest of the Scotch sitches in black floss.  Next I filled in all the rest of the dress with black Ribbon floss, in short and long gobelin stitches.  The green ribbon floss collar is worked in diagonal satin stitches!  Next up is the underskirt!

The cape is finished.

I added a purple cross stitch in Kreinik on top of the green to finalize the layered stitches in the cape.  Next I picked up six strands of black floss and am laying them in scotch stitches on the dress.  Looks like a checkerboard at this point.

Two & Three

I did step two and three on the cape.  Step two was to add lines of black Ribbon Floss around the purple Scotch stitches. Step three was to add green Kreinik 1/8 ribbon cross at the intersections.  One more step to go.  It is storming up big time so off the computer I go!

Starting the cape

I started Bernadette's cape!  It is a multi layered creation starting with the Scotch stitch in purple ribbon floss.
She is acquiring more personality as I go!

A witches hat

I finished filling in all the black ribbon and then went back and filled in all the spaces with purple ribbon floss.  It is a bit hard to see but it is there!  Next up will be her hat band.
Thanks for all the great ideas for the snowflakes, and I tried something else today and did not like it either.....still cogitating.

While I am cogitating

Okay, I worked a few more of the leaves on the cardinal  and still am cogitating on the square snowflakes.  Jane suggested adding longer threads outside the squares and or beads.  I had thought of both of those too.  I just don't like the look of the square Rhodes snowflake so I decided to put it aside for a day and work on Bernadette while considering some alternatives.  So, Bernadette's hat is worked in double stitch and the upright cross stitches are done in black Ribbon Floss.  As you can see, that is working up pretty quick!

She is looking

I started by stitching Bernadette's face and hands.  This is done in basketweave with six strands of floss.  Her eyes are a large cross stitch done with black ribbon floss. Her nose is an appropriate green metallic ribbon floss cross as well.  Her mouth and eyebrows are backstitched with black floss.  I loved doing the faces first so they look at me while I stitch and giggle at her!

It is not the rest of the wing

No, it is not the rest of the wing on B-r-r-r-d bath for you tonight.  I did stitch some on it today, but not so much as to show you yet.  We have company  from out of town and the stitching had to get put aside.......sooooooo, here is what else I am up to.  This is a Mill Hill charted design that I bought from one of the sellers on my destashing blog!  My sister wants a happy witch for Halloween and this design is called Teenie Leenie.  However, we are going to call her Bernadette here to forward.  She is a line drawn canvas and just look at all the fun fibers she will have.  She is 4.5 x 8.5 on 18 count.