The yellow and black cross stitch is all done and the flower ovals have been stitched as well. All that remains is the black backstitch outline, however long that takes.
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Before the yellow lazy daisies |
The yellow ovals on the flowers - the lazy daisies - were hard to do. I had to come up and go down in the same hole but keep a loop of right size out. Then I had to tack the loop in place by coming up through another hole and going back down by a third.
I missed one the first time through and had to go back to re-do it.
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After the lazy daisies |
Then with the black thread I did the beak on the left bird wrong and had to re-do it. Then I saw that I had done two rows of yellow on the right bird one square to the right - messing up the black pattern. I ignored that mistake and stitched in two more yellow squares so the bird would have the right proportion.
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With the black added |
And that needs to be done now is the black outline. Given the amount of outline to do, I don't know how long that will take.
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