Night - finish!

I thought the day would never come. Night was my first large WIP back when I was in high school and it is now... a number of years later. Heh.

This isn't the original one from back in the day - that one was started on fabric that was too small and I discarded it ages ago. This one was started around October 2017, put aside for a long time, then restarted (like completely restarted, ripping out all of 2017's stitching) in February 2020. So... a bit less than four years to finish, haha. Listen, I finished like 50 other projects (not an exaggeration!) in those four years, so I think I did pretty well. :p

Anyway, less blabbing, more pictures, starting with an awful overall pic:

The colors are better in all the closeups.

Tried to get an angled picture to show the blending filament but I don't think it shows up well. I didn't blend it with the DMC, but topstitched it at the end as a half stitch over top of the completed crosses. That keeps it from tangling weirdly and also helps keep all the sparkle on top where you can see it!

I used rose gold size 15 beads instead of the recommended yellow size 11 MH beads for a more delicate look. All but one of the yellow-tipped pink flowers had beads charted around them, so I added beads around the one that didn't to make it match the rest.

I freaking LOVE the colors in the dress. Kind of wish the backstitch on the cream flowers was just a bit darker to match more with the contrast of the pink flower backstitch.

I redid all the satin stitch blocks in all four corners (and some of the eyelets I messed up while taking them out) but I'm still not happy with them. I'll just have to live with it.

 

Barf.

 

Also barf, this really out of place angular leaf among all the natural-looking ones.

By the time I realized how weird it looked, I was in too deep to change it. I mean, I could always go back and change it later, we all know this won't be framed any time soon...

 

I should probably change everything that's bugging me before I put away all my leftover threads... 

 

But this is definitely going in the finish pile for now and I'm taking a well deserved break from blended threads, double highlighting (yellow to mark what needs doing, then blue once it's done to turn it green), fighting with FOUR thread cards that love to tangle, etc etc. Back to something EASY!

For at least a couple of days, anyway. :p