Another one back from the framer

Ocean Waves by Judy Souliotis is back from the framer!  The sparkly mat and then matte frame set this off perfectly!  Thanks, Cari! 

Finished that left corner

Now, it is finished.....that bottom left corner that I forgot I had ordered the thread for is now done.

Ocean Waves is finished!

I finished the last two bubbles of the right wave and added the bead "water droplets"  and this is finished!
Happy Dancing over here!

UPDATE:  I just realized the bottom left corner is not done!  LOL....guess what I will do tomorrow?
And, no I am not keeping this....it is a gift for one of my sisters.

Another wave curl

I have the first section of the right wave done!  It is going to curve up a ways and towards the other
and I can see the light......LOL

Starting the right waves

I got to start the right waves today and have made a bit of progress on it....it will not meet the left wave but will be a bit shorter.

Half the waves

The Japanese silver wave on the left side is all done!  Starting the one on the right......

One wave

Back to Ocean Waves for a while and I finished the wave on the top left!  Woohoo, Yippee, Yay!

Just Silver

Today I spent the two and a half hours filling in silver....doesn't look like much, does it?  It is pretty slow going as there are lots of curves and starting and stopping the pairs....but worth it!

Starting Silver

I finished up the pairs of Kreinik and have now started the pairs of silver up the left side--the waves cresting
from what I see.  Here is what I have changed on this piece:  On the inner border of gold pairs I couched with the Kreinik cord in 021 C instead of the black Kreinik called for.  On the waves I couched the copper with the copper cord instead of the red silk and I did not create the spot of copper and gold that were to be on the left side but just continued with the Kreinik 102.....that is all...you can go back and look at each post by clicking on Ocean Waves on the right side of blog and it will bring up the progress pictures and descriptions for you.  Hope that helps!

Moving on

I finished the gold pairs on the left and moved up into the pairs of # 8 Kreinik in color 102.  I hope everyone is having a safe and happy holiday!

Adding gold

Back to Ocean Waves and time to add in the pairs of Japanese gold above the copper.  I almost have the section done....just that little bit on the left to fill in.

Is that a smirk?

I have finished filling in the bottom of the ocean section with the two strands of Japanese copper.  Sort of looks like a smirky smile to me at this point!  LOL

Bottom of the Ocean

I have started the center at the bottom of the ocean by laying in a pair of the Japanese copper and couching it with a single strand of copper cord.  The directions called for gold silk couching thread but I thought it stood out too much so I switched back to the copper cord.

Laying copper

Here you can see the four areas that I have laid the copper, in pairs, just like Japanese gold.  It is Japanese Embroidery Center copper and is couched with a single strand of Kreinik cord.  Below is a closeup of the section in the middle right so you can see the detail.  Next up is starting the center design as the Kreinik 215 did not arrive yet.

Lower Left Corner

Today is back to Ocean Waves.  I started the lower left pattern by laying in two strands of cord and then tacking the intersections.  Next using the Kreinik #8 I started the pattern to fill in the squares.  This is as far as I got when I ran out of the fiber.  Not to panic as I ordered it last week and expect it anytime!

Lower Right Corner

The lower right corner is done!  This is first worked by setting up the pattern with the 005 black Kreinik.  then the detail pattern is filled in with 215 in #8.  Just the lower left pattern left to go!  This is moving fairly quickly!

The Border is done!

I finished the rest of the diagonal stitches with the copper cord and finished the border.  The original design did call for all of these stitches to be done in the black Kreinik but I felt it was overpowering and want the center of the design to be the first thing to catch your eye so I changed it--you are not surprised?!

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.

Upper Left Background

Getting back to Ocean Waves, I worked another round of the outside border with the Japanese silver and tying it down with the black Kreinik.  I then worked the upper left background.  It consisted of laying in a grid with #8 215 Kreinik and then coming back and filling in first with Kreinik 021 in #8 in the back and run technique.  Last, using Kreinik #4 in 032 I stitched the box designs in each row.

Busy, busy

First, I finished the upper right corner pattern.  The center design is a single strand of Kreinik tied down with
another single strand with the darker copper.  I then laid in row one of the outside border in the Japanese silver and tied it down with black #4 Kreinik, see the left side......then I started the next row of Japanese silver that is also tied down with the black Kreinik, but this time it is done with a cross stitch as shown on the right side.