Red Velvet

Every maiden deserves a red velvet cape!

Starting the Robe

I am working on the gorgeous robe and have finished the left sleeve, and am almost done with the right one!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!   I am off to celebrate with family and will be back to stitching tomorrow!

Snowflake Dress

 I finished the dress a bit differently than what was painted, but I like the shiny snowflakes!

Starting the gown

 I am working on the gown.....dark blue and the light blue snowflakes!

At the right

More background today, almost done with the right side!

Face and Hands

She is coming to life as I stitched her face and hands!

Beads!

I added beads to the headdress!

Headdress

The background for the headdress is stitched and I worked more down the left side of the background!

Mixing it up

I did some more on the background but I have also started working on the Headdress!

More than half!

Backgrounds just take a lot of time, but I am getting there!  Calling this more than half way done.

Down to the face

Lots more background!  I have stitched over the bells and will add them in later.

Lots!

I am working along on the background!  Made great progress today!  The dome shape is all done for the
background of the standup.

Starting in...........

Silver Bells is going to be a standup so she needs a background.  I have all the threads for that so I am going to do background for a few days.  I will watch for the mailman daily for some other threads too!

Silver Bells

Meet Silver Bells!  She is one of the eight  Winter Maidens by Leigh Designs!  She is a 6 inch design on 18 count and I am gathering threads to get this stand up started! You can see the entire series here:
http://leighdesigns.com/Grp834x.html

Fini!

I added beads to all the stars and along the edges of the Milky Way.  Done!  Finished up the stitch guide as well!

Milky Way sprays

 Added the bottom section with some Milky Way sprays!

Background stars

I have put in even more stars in the background!!

All the layers

All of the layers are in on the top right stars.....going to add a few more next

Plotting the stars

The top right stars are counted out.  I have layer one done on all of them and layer two on some of them.

A few stars

I added two shades of stars in the bottom left.....maybe needing some beads here.....

Full size

I finished the entire outside border, started across the bottom rectangle and worked more stars!

The next pattern

I extended the sides of the design and am working the next design area with another star type stitch with Silk Lame Braid.

Second Band

I worked the second band with Fyre Werks and did a star type stitch over the top using Planet Earth Silk.

From the top

I started this design  with a rectangle filled with an  Alternating Cashmere Variation that has a silver upright cross.  This is the first little twinkly star series in the piece.

Maybe some of these

In the background is the white 18 count canvas flecked with silver which is cut 10 x 12.  Here are some of the possible threads for what I am going to call Midnight Stars.