Backtracking.....

 

 Re-visiting the Stitching...

I have neglected to show you, Dear Readers, my current mini stitching project, partly because I have not found as much time to be stitching on it, and partly because I have been so focused on showing you the Castle painting process. But rest assured, that my passion for petit-point stitching has not waned! Before I had even completed the Aubusson style carpet, I had begun to stitch a series of chair seat kits also designed by Janet Granger. This pattern is known as "Strawberry Thief" and is loosely based on the pattern of that name designed by William Morris in the late 19th Century. The kits come with everything you need as well as the wooden chair kits, which I have not begun to work on yet. So far I have only been making the seat covers. Above, you can see my beginnings. I know... it doesn't show you much, but one has to start somewhere!

Here you can see most of the decorative pattern completed already... 

I was forgetting to take pictures too!

Here the pattern is finished and only the background needs to be stitched.

Here the background has been completed. 

One down, three to go!

Here's the second one under way.

And as sometimes happens when we are

 making something for the second time,

 and we think we know what we are doing, 

so we don't pay close attention... 

we make mistakes!

Can you spot the "ooops"?

 

Well, I caught it before I had gone too far to unstitch the mistake...

and restitch it with the correct color blue!

 

The wings are the darker blue,

as are those blossoms in the corners!

 

Here the pattern is done and the background begun...

And that's all I have to show so far, Dear Readers,

Just a little back tracking... and 

a good amount of stitching!