The Emerald Forest

Finished today!  The Emerald Forest is the second in my 'tree series'.  It uses one color DMC Color Variations floss (4045) and is stitched on Dusty Green jobelan from Wichelt Imports.  I used a mix of multi-colored bugle beads, which will also be included with the pattern, but the design would be easily adapted to just about any embellishment a stitcher wanted to try.  There are also half stitches tossed into the is one to give it a little more texture.   

Next up?  One of my abstract thread paintings. I've been wanting to give one of these a shot just to see where I am at in their development. I will be posting my progress as I start working with this new idea. 

productive day!

I finished the two baby quilts I was working on, and I tell you all a little more about them later this week.  I am just so happy to have them done and they'll be delivered tomorrow to the one I made them for.  I'm not sure what it is, but I just cannot sleep anymore. Even with the freedom to have a proper sleep in today, I was still up at 6:45am. It did give me a full day though to finish the quilts and then scoot right into stitching after lunch, and I was able to finish (finally!!) Lil' Flakes: Snowfall #4.

Each of our four little friends stitches up at about 40w x 40h, give or take a stitch or three. I stitched mine over two threads on 28ct. Babbling Brook hand dyed jobelan from Wichelt Imports.  They all use DMC threads.  They're a quick stitch and the perfect size for so many projects.  

The next project I believe will be The Emerald Forest.  I found these really pretty bugle beads that I think I am going to use instead of the seed bead mix I had originally planned on using.