On to the stitching! I worked on the elephant for an hour or so last night; his trunk is filling in nicely and he actually has two eyes now. This isn't a large piece and I'm not too terribly far from having him finished. Don't know what I'll do with him when he is finished. He's too handsome to just put away but I don't really have a good place to hang him if I were to get him framed. Maybe I'll make him into a pillow.
I worked on boxes again today so I got a late start on my Sunday stitching. I didn't feel like pulling out anything big, so I worked on Silver Stitches and got about 4 rows finished. I really like this ornament; the center row across is Rhodes stitches using the DMC silver Light Effects. Directly on either side of the Rhodes stitches are rows of eyelets, then rows of Scotch and reverse Scotch stitches, rice stitches with the Xes done in the silver and couched with DMC 3743 (it looks really nice), Montenegrin in white, tied upright crosses in 3743 and then Smyrna crosses in DMC 927. The rows I'm working on now are double herringbone, with the first pass done using one strand of white and the second using one strand of 3743. It looks pretty in real life, though it's kind of hard to see in the picture.
And finally, another picture of my snowy deck, but if you notice there are shadows because the sun was out yesterday for a while! It peeked out a few times today as well. The sun makes the cold and snow a bit more bearable.
Have a great week and happy stitching!
2 comments:
The elephant looks great and I think a pillow would look nice.
Beautiful progress! The elephant looks great.
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