A Touch of Blush

I added the blush on Wild Woman's face using four strands of Splendor to match the painted canvas.  A bit heavy handed she was, but on the apple of her cheeks!  I need to add the shine on her glass lens and start the frames next.

The paper

The paper on the package is stitched!  Yippee!  I also started down the center band of the ribbon and the blue Marlitt is done and I am working on the cream. This is a single strand of Marlitt worked in basketweave to allow some of the beautiful paint which is opalescent to show thruogh.

Almost to the bottom

Today I am working on Sharon G's Gift of Love and worked on the blue Waterlilies Double Stitch background on the left side.  I finished one section clear to the bottom and then worked from under the ribbon down.  You can now see the little white heart there.  I will definitely finish this blue tomorrow and will start down the center ribbon section to get that completed.

Starlite

I finished the Lattice with Tied Oblong cross area today by working all the crosses in Madeira.  Madeira is a lot like blending filament weight and this is used doubled in the needle.  It is difficult to get a good picture of the sheen as with most metallics, but it is very pretty.  I then moved on to the top are called Starlite.  It is worked in one strand of Waterlilies Flamingo this far.  As you can see you vary the number of stitches as you move closer to the top to create the fragmented concept she has designed in this piece.

Lattice Stitch

I worked more on the Lattice stitch.  I took out the counting error I found and finished the left to right stitches in Needle Necessities.  The right to left segment is worked with two strands of Soie d' Alger and all of those are also complete.  Ready to fill in the centers of the trellis!

Happy Easter

I hope everyone has had a Happy Easter.  We had a great time with the great niece and nephew doing an Easter egg Hunt and dying eggs, of course!  I started working more on Aurora Borealis, but counted wrong so tomorrow I will rip it out and redo it.  Photos then of the progress.

Braids and all

First I finished adding in all the rest of the beads on all four corners.  The I used Perle 8 and dis the straight stitches in sets of five on all four side.  Using Pebbly Perle I did an overlay in a partial eyelet stitch on top of the straight stitches.  Last in the center of those five straight stitches  I created the sets of overlapping triangles using Neon Rays and Ribbon floss to create the braided effects in the centers.