Interlocking Jessicas

This segment began with the interlocking Jessicas worked alternately with gold Kreinik and white Perle.  The outside and inner borders are more Perle and Kreinik ribbon.  The Jessicas overlap each other. They go over the bottom of the previous and under the top.  A lot of coffee drinking went into keeping these straight!

Nautilus Diamond

Pages 15 and 16 are this area which includes a Nautilus Diamond that is a 198 stitch diagram worked in Kreink.  Then Sprat's Heads are added in DMC Fil.  Next an outline stitch from the bottom left up to the top of the right stitches.  Last, a reverse pattern background is done in more Kreinik.

Diagonal Half Rhodes

I finished all of the beads on the Helen's Lace and moved onto page 12.  The diagonal half rhodes is worked with Splendor.  Then the rectangles are formed with Kreinik and the long diagonals are more Splendor.  DMC Fil is laid in long diagonal stitches around the border to complete that area.

Moving on to the next area.  I had to remove the large cross stitches that I had worked in Perle.  The original charts showed them filled in while I was outlining but the instruction page says to work them in Splendor.  It just took a few minutes to frog and fix.  Then upright crosses in Kreinik are worked over the top and a long row of diagonal stitches over one form the edge.

More on that

I finished all of the Helen's Lace.  Then diagonal knitted plaits in Perle #8 and I am now beading the spaces of the lace to finish this section.

Helen's Lace area

This area starts by finishing off the lower edge with diagonal stitches in the #5 Perle.  Then 2 strands of Bijoux went over the top diagonal.  Last, I set up the Helen's Lace pattern.  This area uses any or all of the threads we have used so far!  So there is many of the 1/16 ribbons, some Marlitt and some Bijoux.

Side Area

The sun came out today!  This is actually better colors!
First, all of the diamond lattice pattern is done with 2 strands of #12 Perle.  Then the gold filigree pattern was worked with DMC Fil inside of them and in the center of the box.  Cross stitches were placed over the intersections with 2 ply of Bijoux and then 1 x 4 crosses were placed over the lattice with one ply of the same Bijoux.  The Pinwheel Mistake stitch is worked with #8 Kreinik and then diagonal stitches worked around it with 1/16 ribbon.  This completes this area and page 10 is done!

So far

I went back and redid the Diamond Rhodes at the top to correct the stitch placement.  Thanks for pointing it out to me.  I followed the chart but it was not right so I fixed it.  Then I added the beads around the triangles in the first diagonal band with Mill Hill beads.  I then added the stitches in between the Continuous Scotch in the side area.  Next to the rectangle are more beads that are criss cross stitched into place using Delica beads this time.