Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Beaded Dragonfly Tile - again!

I think this is my oldest WIP, at least of things I actually plan to finish. (I think there's a HAED that's even older, but... nah.) Anyway, this has been in the works for more than five years now, aka way too long, so it's time. For real. Look how close it is now!


This is a pic from yesterday afternoon. I finished the outer border (aka jessica stitch hell) this morning and I'm starting to backstitch the flower buds. Unfortunately, I think I need to remove all the old backstitching (and some of the new) because I'm not satisfied with the color. It's too light to stand out well against all the pinks in the flowers, and since I've already spent five years on this, what's another day or two?


It's hard to see but the double buds in the corner are stitched in a slightly darker color than the single bud near the top of the picture. I might want to go even darker to make it pop more. I mean, why spend all this time on buds with 10+ colors in them if they end up looking like blobs?

Of course, there's still a billion over-one dragonflies and a ton of beading left too...

Monday, April 16, 2018

Iris Flower Panel - post #5 - Finish!

All done! This was finished over the weekend. :)

As usual, the pictures aren't that great, so you have to pretend it's nicer than it looks. The fabric is PTP Truffle so it's a slightly pinkish light brown. The iris was converted to shades of purple (original was blue) and all threads are random stuff from my stash.


I actually feel like the bling in the top section is a little too much. Those round crystals are overkill. Just one at the top would have sufficed. Oh well, they're already on there so they're staying.


Finally, the two siblings are together! It might be hard to see, but the orchid has bicones in place of those five clear round crystals on the iris, which looks better to my eye. There's just one large clear crystal at the very top and it's the same size of the five on the iris. The large top crystal on the iris is even bigger and it looks unbalanced.


Well, I can always change things out later if I feel like it! For now, I'll enjoy the finish. :D

Next up, Beaded Dragonfly Tile. For real this time. Already made some good progress over the weekend and I'm pumped to keep going!

Monday, April 09, 2018

Iris Flower Panel - post #4

I think I finished all the over-one in this design. Someone slap me if I ever consider doing a pattern with this much over-one again. (Um, never mind all the other Chatelaines I've started... haha.)

Overall progress:
(Really close to finishing now! Just some specialty stitches and beads, I think!)


Close up of my terrible over-one stitching. I tried full crosses this time instead of tent/continental because it looks a little neater, but... eh. It's still pretty bad. Not a fan of over-one, honestly.


I wonder if I can finish this week! Lots of Jessica stitches to go and I'm bad at those too. :p

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Iris Flower Panel - post #3

Quick update! I've been stitching a little bit every day, and it's amazing how much progress I've made just by paying attention to being consistent. :)


Next step will be finishing up the iris leaves, then getting back to the over-one garden in the middle. Definitely don't want to leave that all until the end!