My IHSW didn't go so well. In fact I stitched less than I would have a regular weekend. But I slept a lot so that was good.
This is what Egyptian Sampler looked like Saturday morning:
And this was at the end of tonight:
I finished up a few of the border motifs and started outlining them. The colours are actually very jewel-like and bright in person. The purple outline around the red stitches really enhance the gemstone look.
I've never had a lot of faith in the uniformity of my eyelet stitches and I wasn't interested in hours of doubt. So I switched out the small eyelets for Star Stitches and the big ones for Norwich Stitches. No worries about uneven pulling, just easy stitches.
More about IHSW here:
Beautiful. I ❤️the clours
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely design..The colors just pop. I love your version of your stitches they look great!
ReplyDeleteIt's looking great. Love the colours!
ReplyDeleteYou made great progress...and I like your substitution...more of the pretty colors show than if they were eyelets. =)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! My daughter would love this design, great job.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous! I have this sampler in my UFO pile - I guess it's time to bring it to a day light and join you in stitching :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful progress update. Do you have a face book account. I think the group members of "Teresa Wentzler Cross Stitch SAL" would love to see your progress too!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the progress, Blu! Can't wait to see more. ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat progress Blu! Love the colors in this piece.
ReplyDeleteYou did fine! :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic progress, it's looking lovely
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