The Dusting of Snow piece from class with Gail Stafford is coming along nicely.
I added snow to the first of the center bushes, have the Dogwood tree in place, filled in the upper right sky in both colors, stitched all 9 distant trees, and the gazebo. I was worried about disrupting the smoothness of the roof with the branches of the Dogwood. So, I wrapped the thread around the padding threads and tacked down sparingly and closer to the single brown thread. I like the rounded effect. It would not have worked out to do that for the whole tree because I couldn’t maintain the tension without twisting. Maybe if I had wrapped a thick wire. I’m very happy the Dogwood tree is done. That was challenging.
Taking a break before working more of the center bushes, the leaves on the trees, and the rest.
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The dogwood tree looks great. Projects like this so much remind me of embroidery rather than needlepoint. But the results are spectacular.
Comment by Brenda's Needlepoint Blog June 20, 2019 @ 6:50 amBeing on Congress Cloth gives it an embroidery feel but this is mostly canvaswork type of stitches.
Comment by melitastitches4fun June 20, 2019 @ 7:38 am