OK, I decided. My next project will be from my WIP pile: "Tsunami Sampler" (design by Martina Dey of Stickideen von der Wiehenburg, published in "Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly"Fall 2007). This is what it looked like in February, 2008: and here is is after two days of stitching: It's on 28ct white linen, stitched with Hand-dyed Fibers silks, one over one. OK, Over one isn't fun, and my rough hands are playing havoc with the silk, but color on white is a picnic after that fish!
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The Spirit of the Sockeye, based on a painting by Blaine Billman, chart by The Stitching Studio, completed April 25, 2009!
Progress on page five --- the fish is done and there is only splashing water left. Various shades of gray to fill in...
Finally, page four of the six pages of charts is done and all of the fish is done. Only water to go: the hardest part with all those scattered stitches.
I blew off stitching ALL last week so if this progress picture doesn't look much further on that week Thirteen, it's not. With on Monday working on the white foam, it has filled in a little and I found the errors I had made last week, but otherwise...
What can I say? Three errors in counting: one off in each case --- all fudge-able but still frustrating. It's so hard to do those scattered stitches on black!
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