Glitz and Glamour Diamond....done!

I finished the Glitz and Glamour Diamonds by DebBee's designs!  I first finished the Diamond Pavilion stitches on the corners and then added the last half diamond shapes by laying in Fyre Werks.  The final touch is the 5 mm crystals.  This piece is about 5.75 square and will be the companion piece I did called Black Onyx--also by the same designer.

Longer than I thought

Apparently, I don't judge my stitching time well....I thought I would have this finished already!  LOL....so I laid in the big Rhodes stitches with the Sparkle Braid and that did take a lot longer than I thought as it must be done with the laying tool......As does the Pavilion Diamonds I am adding to those with the Frosty Rays...maybe another day or two?  Who knows!

Thanks, everyone!

The comments about Aurora Borealis have been phenomenal!  Thanks!  I will be getting this framed and it is for me....yippee!  I will not be stitching the companion piece for it as I have several other projects that are in line and a couple of UFO's to get done.....
 Speaking of which.....I am almost done with this one and will be working on it until it is finished which I hope is only a couple of sessions.  It has been a while since I worked on Glitz and Glamour Diamond by DebBee's Designs:

I had just finished the four waffle stitches when I set this aside.  I have now added the large cross stitch on it with Fyre Werks.  I then did overlapping Crescents using a single strand of HiLights to finish the stitching on the center design.  Moving back to the outside, I used Neon Rays and stitched Large Rhodes Diamonds on each side.

More diamonds

I finished all of the small and medium Rhodes diamonds and have created the full square. I then finished all the small ones on all four sides.  Then using Silk Lame Braid I did the Upright Waffle stitches in the center.  This is all being worked in white, iridescent  and shiny fibers so it wil be difficult to see the true colors.

Rhodes Diamonds

I spent the day working Rhodes Diamonds stitches.  The smallest ones are done is two strands of Anchor Marlitt and the larger ones are done in Rainbow Gallery Fyre Werks.  Still a few more to go!

A bigger X

Today I continued working smaller and larger Rhodes Diamonds on all four "legs".  The top right one shows where I finished working by adding yet another row.

Glitz & Glamour Diamond

Time to add another piece into the rotation.  This is DebBee's Designs, Glitz & Glamour Diamond and is a 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 inch design worked in all whites.  I started in the center of 18 count Opalescent canvas with Neon rays and did four Rhodes Diamonds.  Then using Anchor Marlit I worked smaller Rhodes diamonds around those.  Next Soft Sheen Fyre Werks in white pearl are done in the Rhodes Diamonds again, followed by more of the smaller  and repeated outward.