Provence Mandala Update

The majority of the fibers have been gotten along with the beads (from European X stitch). Cindy (European X Stitch) packaged the beads so nicely and I am so happy to have let her minions, aka children, help her on these instead of me doing that counting. I only have 2 NPI and 3 or 4 pearles that are remaining. This means I have cut, serged, and started the project. There are two photos of updates along with the floss toss on the fabric. This project definitely gets you in a zone. I already love it. My DH couldn't believe what I had stitched in two sittings. I think this is slow, but hey, maybe it is fast for some. I did end up changing one of the fiber colors. The major blue just didn't look right on the fabric so I went for Holiday Blue from Gloriana instead of Velvet Night Sky. The one I chose has some darker renderings of color in it and I prefer it to the original choice, especially with the Meditation fabby from Picture This Plus.

Mermaid of Atlantis Progress

So I created the blog for the Provence Mandala, but, I feel inclined to show the progress of other WIP's. Yes, this is so I keep working on them. Here is a pic. I got tired of the brown and gold so I had to do some blue and green. The Kreinik has been a little tedious but not too bad.

The Material List is in hand

Yes - this means $'s going out of the bank account. Wow, you should see the list. This on top of the fact that I figured out how big the lovely was going to be since I am stitching on 28 count instead of 32 count. Instead of 23" x 23" it is going to be 26+" x 26+". The "+" is just a fractional inch. So I am off to the lovely needle point shop to procure some of the silk . I really want to change some of the colors to Dinky Dye's silks. Especially the Gloriana 'Velvet Night Sky". I would prefer to do that much blue/purple in a silk I like. Will see what I am able to do and report back.