Is Progress....
I am making good Progress, Dear Readers, with the tiny cushion stitching, in spite of only being able to stitch for a couple of hours a day. The stitches are so tiny, I have to have very good light, and around here that means for the morning. The days are getting longer, but the evenings are still pretty long and dark. I content myself with gluing Rhododendron leaves onto stems in the darker hours. In the above picture you can see I have outlined both the deer with the darker red color, as per instructions. I have also begun to stitch the flowers, starting with the ones on the original chart which I would not need to move! Also adding the new blossoms into the extra corner areas. Once I realized how many flowers I was going to have to move... I decided I needed to draw the chart for them, otherwise, I would be hopelessly lost when it came to the background stitching.
I started with drawing in a few of the small blue flowers that would not need to be moved.
And I added the dark red outlining to the chart showing the new flower placement.
And this is as far as I got, Dear Readers,
Dearest Betsy, I often have said before that I soooo admire your skills and patience to make changes in the embroidery pattern, and you did (once again!) a very good job. I love seeing how the work on these amazing cushions progresses.
ReplyDeleteYour Rhododendron bushes are also growing along, it is so much work, but and here too, your presistence is admirable.
Your progress on both projects in miniature is promissing, have fun while you're working at them.
Personally I've been busy in my garage, after getting better of the nasty flu. I had sooo much work to do in there that making miniatures was not possible (in the eveings no energy anymore), and I missed blogging, but I also know: just a litttle while longer and I can work again at my miniatures and in a clean garage too :O).
I hope your winter will be over soon, for getting more daylight and flowers, who cheer up your days.
Warm hugs, Ilona
Fantástico trabajo, ha sido un gran progreso y tus hojas llevan el mismo camino. Feliz semana
ReplyDeleteDear Betsy,
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how well the third cushion looks with the change you made. Beautiful colors and stunning work!
I hope spring is on the way for your side of the world, enabling you to get more daylight and sunshine.
Hugs, Drora
Hi Betsy,
ReplyDeleteYour tiny embroideries are truly amazing to me, and they're look so beautiful! And wow, you're getting an actual garden of Rhodie stems! When I first saw the photo, I thought they were a bouquet of real stems in a vase! You are definitely the best at slow and steady wins the race! Thank you for sharing your progress, I always enjoy seeing how things are coming along!
Hugs,
Michelle G.
In my modest opinion you did not only make good progress because any progress is progress after all and therefore good... no, you really made good progress in the meaning of "WOW... once more so much progress both in quantity of the stitches and even more in quality because of the design's beauty showing up more and more. It's always a magic of its own how much filling the background helps to highlight the motifs.
ReplyDeleteAnd with all this fiddly stitching progress you even managed to keep up with your leafing production. I wish I could tell you I was as productive in miniatures as you... sadly for my North Pole guys I was caught by some "Pre-spring decluttering cleaning bug" lately. However, using the words of a good friend... any progress is progress. ;O)
Hugs
Birgit
¡Un trabajo impresionante!
ReplyDeleteHas avanzado mucho, ésa cantidad de puntadas que hace que poco a poco vayamos viendo el dibujo...es como magia!
ReplyDeleteBesos.