I took a little detour last night from working on my Fairy Garden. I finished up the first block on my Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow! The colors are so vibrant on this...the chartpack picture definitely needs to be retaken!
After looking at several of the blocks, there are only a few that do not have a peacock somewhere in it.
All good intentions aside, I did not get as much done on my Fairy Flower Garden in the past few days as I would have liked. But, I did try the little Jessica bellflowers. Cute! . . . and pretty easy to stitch, too! I did start to fill in the yellow border. The chart calls for pink centers for the bead flowers, but I liked the purple centers better.
And a little closer look:
Fairy Flower Garden
Thanks, again, to everyone for your encouraging comments! Reading all of them certainly does help to keep me motivated!
Scrolls! Only one more to finish filling in with DMC 519 and then only one remains! Woohoo!
Maybe I will finally get to move onto the next border. I am waiting for the border to be in place before I backstitch any of those dark green leaves.
Well, duh!!
I keep completely forgetting that I am missing DMC 807 to fill in the heart shape on the four central motifs. Once I get that thread, the motifs will be done!
A little more work on my Fairy Garden.
Now that the scrolls are outlined, I need to go back and fill each one in.
After seeing Ineke's gorgeous dragonfly, I am sooo tempted to just stitch what I need to make it to the outer portion where the dragonflies are. But...I am trying to be good on this one. Three scrolls are filled in now, with five more to go. The corners are much easier than the center portions, but I know how I am.
If I don't complete the middle portions along with the corners, they might just get skipped over for quite a while. ;)
A little more on my Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow (Block #1). I'm alternating between this one and my Fairies Flower Garden.
The colors are much richer than the picture on the chart shows.
I worked on all the Deep Blue Sea scrolls on my Fairies Garden. I thought I had them all done, but, of course, after looking at my picture....I see there is one that is missing a little bit of its scrolls.
I'll finish those little bits and move onto another color within the scrolls...probably the Cormorant Gaze. OK - Cormorant?? Now that's a word I have never heard. So, curiosity got the better of me and I went and looked it up. Believe it or not, it is a species of bird. Now I feel better. :) It makes you wonder where the thread designers go looking for new color names, doesn't it?
