After working on my Mirabilias for months and months....well, I started to feel a bit guilty about neglecting all my Chatelaines. So Oriental Harem Garden came out to play for a while. I always forget how vibrant and gorgeous the colors are in this design....take a peek. I really like the little triangle and border, so far.
Lots of odds and ends filled in. I did get quite a bit done on the west building. Almost ready for the rest of the specialty stitches to be completed.
Oriental Harem Garden.
MyWIP on the Sleigh still does not look like a sleigh, yet. Maybe after today, when I will start to work on the scroll portions of the front of the sleigh.
Oriental Harem Garden saw a little bit of sunlight yesterday. I worked on one of the corners which has a lantern and fountain.
I worked on the copper braid portions of this last night, until I started making too many counting mistakes on the last corner. Then I filled in a bit of the Mediterranean thread on the upper corner.
Well, as long as it keeps my attention, I am going to keep working on my Oriental Harem Garden (Chatelaine Designs). I completed the outer portion of the copper outlines. Now I just have to go back and fill in the rest of the motifs. By doing it this way, I was sure that everything lined up, before I invested a lot more time in finishing the center portion of the copper braid, only to find out it didn't meet at the right point. Much more simple to stitch than explain!
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I worked on this one for quite a while yesterday. I managed to complete the inside of one portal, another window and some of the outlines for the building. I just love the combination of colors on the door and windows.
One side of the palm trees for my Oriental Harem Garden (Chatelaine Designs) is finished (well, I just have to finish filling in one more green ont he ground portion...but the trees are done!
I did the copper braid outline of the first corner for Part 6, which was released yesterday.
And another day of Harem.
The upper portion of the building is done, except for the beads. So - of course I had to see what the start of those palm trees would look like.
Here's some of the greens below the palm trees and one lonely trunk.
more Harem:
Oriental Harem Garden
I got a bit more done than I expected yesterday. Two windows, more blackwork and some of the top right hand side of the building. There is just a small portion to finish filling in on the top and then the black backstitching. I did change out one of the specialty stitches, too. There were supposed to be woven waffle stitches in the upper corners of the windows. Tried 'em - didn't like how they looked. So, I used a partial diamond eyelet instead.
Some progress on Harem! (Yeah!) All the black outlines are done. I filled in some of the scalloped border, too. I stitched as much of the Gloriana Pumpkin thread that I could, since I ran out. Now to fill in all those windows and portals!
Small amount of progress on my Oriental Harem Garden. The two smaller windows filled in, finished the blackwork next to the main portal and all the greens in the top scalloped border.
Some....and some stitching being frogged. I used the wrong color on one part that I had filled in...so..rip it, rip it, rip it! It's undone now and I'll finish filling it in again with the right color later.
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I filled in the doorway in the arch. Very pretty colors. All the black backstitching is what is going to keep me really busy on this part.
Progress, that is...but every little stitch is a move forward, right?
Here's my OHG with the remainder of the pumpkin family colored threads filled in on the first portal, as well as some of the purples along the sides. Oh, and the gold Rhodes stitches, too.:)
I stitched some of the black outlines for OHG last night. There is going to be a lot of filling in on this portion!
I agreed to a SAL for my Oriental Harem Garden. I picked this back up again yesterday and worked on it for a while. The turquoise scalloped border, the black outlines and some of the windows were what I accomplished yesterday.
Happy Dance Time....It seems like it took f o r e v e r...but Part 2 of my Oriental Harem Garden is done (with the exception of the beads in the outer border and corners). Yeah!! Onward to Part 3.
that's what I have been doing...At least all the black backstitching is finished on my Oriental Harem Garden. 
Now it will be onto the missing gold stitches and the gold backstitch.
Worked on my Harem garden again for a little while yesteday. 
and also a little more Christmas in July.
