Sew Dance

I was surprising busy this week. Either that or I kept switching crochet projects that are meant as Christmas presents and can't post photos. However, I didn't work on Insanity this week. I did a bit of work on Peacocks because I have other projects planned for my overnight. 3 of my orders came on Saturday, finished this guy last night and almost have the other similar ornament finished as well.

I'm getting there. I spent more time stitching this week. If you recall, this was last week's progress. I managed to finish outlining the dragon. But was this the end of my backstitching? Nope. The dragon needed gold scales and the background needed some cross-hatching. Two different colors. The second went a little quicker because I had a reference in front of me rather than having to refer to the backstitch chart. Yes, there are an extra four pages just for backstitching placement. Now, that that's over with, onto the beads! I essentially have to put four around the spots where the blue hatching cross, and also in the blank spot in the blue of the border. This may take me all week. Also, Camp NaNoWriMo starts on Tuesday. I've decided on a story that's been playing around in my midn for a while and was a choice for November. I have the beginning, the premise, and a general idea of where I want it to go. Then again, November went almost off...

One project, multiple pictures. Up first is the solid colors being completed. Sorry about the slightly blurry image Next is the variegated silks being finished. Followed by the back-stitching being completed. Her face has definition now. And finally. The beading done and the entire piece finished.The picture doesn't do the finished piece justice. There are 8 different colors of beads in two different sizes. The white which is around the edges of the wings look like pearls.

I'm having a really bad day. I woke up to an e-mail about a purchase from my paypal account that I didn't make (I was sleeping how could I?) I somehow got a mosquito bite on the palm of my right hand. I then hit traffic going to my dance lesson and was almost late. And now, I realize I forgot some stitches in my sparkly purple so I need to order some. It's on the upper right of the wing, I missed it for whatever reason.    I've included a close up of the dew drops.  Given the nature of my day, I'm stopping work on this for a while and moving to something else.

I've completed all cross-stitching and backstitching on Dew Drop Fairy. I've started beading it and have 1/8 of the border done already. Oh, and after being very frugal with my last bit of sparkly purple, I had just enough. Phew. If anyone decides to stitch this design, best to buy two spools as precaution. I discovered a while ago while working on a Chatelaine, that the cases the SD cards come in are very good for beads. The pop mechanism allows me to open it minimally in my hand without worrying the beads will go flying. My old job got tons of them and we ended up throwing most of them away. I kept a bunch.