Double Double finishing

My first attempt at finishing a box!

The Pumpkins and !

The Pumpkins on the left...

The Pumpkins on the right......

And this one is done!  82 hours of stitching time!

The Fire and the last snake

The fires is roaring from the Trebizond and the logs are in place with Impressions and Burmilana.  The final snake is all beaded the Zelda-on the left-is holding....ready to add to the pot.

On to the final areas!

That is a full pot!

Sybil needed a beaded snake and a skull to start the pot and to then make it boil, I added Smyra, Rhodes and French knots with Kreinik and Trebizond!  Then I did the spider with some Fuzzy stuff and added bugle beads for his legs and pink beads for his eyes.  Last,  I added googly eyes to Agnes's purse on the left, some in the pot, and then Zelda has a couple in her hand.

A Cauldron

The  bottom of the cauldron is padded with some felt and then 

over-stiched with Flair.  The top rim of the pot is stitched twice with Flair.  The center band is a pattern stitch with over-dyed Threadworx.  The top of the legs are Trebizond bullions.  The legs are diagonal  stitches with Flair.  The feet are more bullions but done with Flair.  Next up is to fill the cauldron!

Stars, a frog and a purse

The stars in the sky are Sundance beads.  The frog is also beaded with 3 colors of Sundance beads.

The purse is woven away from the canvas and then stuffed with some threads so it is three dimensional.  

Fancy Skirt and shoes

To finish the skirt, the Perle and Neon Rays are tied down with a #4 Kreinik in gold.  Then beads are added in the center of the cross stitches.  Her shoes are black Trebizond and the bows are Flair with Kreinik in the center.

So this is the overall photo so far.  All of the details are to come!

Zelda's skirt

I started Zelda's skirt by laying  large Neon Rays cross stitches.  Then long stitches of Perle Cotton are laid in place.

A peplum for Zelda

I added the peplum for Zelda using Threadworx overdyed Kreinik for the orange.  The bows are Flair.

Zelda

I did more on the sky and then did Zelda's blouse in two colors of Trebizond.  Her bow is Flair and the hands are basketweave with floss.  Her belt buckle is Kreinik and so is the belt.

Completed Sybil's clothes

Sybil's cape is Petite Very Velvet.  I added a French knot in the middle of her bow tie at the neck.  I stitched the pole stirring the pot and then finished her skirt with Panache.  My thread came in so I can now also finish the sky between the hats!

Dressing Sybil

Sybil is the middle witch.  She has a Kreinik patterned shirt, a Petite Frosty Rays bow and a Trebizond lined cape.  I also stitched both of her hands in floss to match the skin tones on her face.

Agnes gets clothes

Yes, I gave the witches names!  Agnes is on the left and the skirt is finished.  She also has on shoes.  The skirt is first worked with Impressions and then Kreinik highlights were added.  Her shoes are stitched with Trebizond.  The purse and frog in her hand will be worked later.

And an apron.

I added the Neon Rays + in the open spaces on the Peplum.  Then the apron is a slightly pulled stitch with Perle Cotton.  The skirt is started at the top left with a single strand of Impressions.

The Peplum

I stitched the first step of the Peplum with Vineyard Silk.  I need  to fill in the open spaces next.

Dressmaking begins!

I finished her blouse, hand and sash today!

All the Hair!

There, all the hair is in.  The witch on the left now has two colors of Vineyard Silk in Random long and Short.  The middle witch now has one strand of Fuzzy Stuff in Encroaching Gobelin which has been lightly brushed.  This beauty shop is now closed!

Major change

Notice that the witch on the left does not have those French knots for her hair anymore?  They were too big!  I also stitched the hair for the center witch and pulled it all out as well.  Taking out French knots is not a lot of fun nor was removing the center witches hair, but that is all done now.  I do like the hair for right witch which is stitched with Impressions and it is in better proportion  so we are going with it.  I am coming up with something else for the other two.

More hats

I finished the hats on the other two witches!  I also changed the flower on the center hat.  I did not want it to be felt so I used some Straw Silk.

Faces

I finished the hair on the left witch and then did all of the faces on the gals!  I did change a lot of colors of floss called for on the faces to get a better match,