As promised last week, here's the new Santa. This is the last of the Timberline Santas; it's the "Norway Spruce Santa". I'm really looking forward to the beading on this one, his coat has a diamond brocade in beads and the ropes on the sled and tree look like a lot of fun! This is still more of a "TV time" than a "travel time" project. I'm just not driving all that much this winter.
The other project that I'm working on steadily is my Mead Dragon full coverage piece. Art is by Stanley Morrison, charted by Paine Free Crafts. It's at 40,776 / 94,500 or 43.15%. 1,455 stitches so far this month.
Where I was last week for comparison. You can see I got a bit more done on the right-side background, quite a bit of wing fill-in and more of the back hip. Also did a day's worth of black under the collar area. I'm still using the typewriter method to choose what color to work on next. Everything is completed down though row 136. The wing is odd; there's a lot of confetti, so sometimes when you have a single stitch up higher on the wing, working out the thread gets you 'ahead of yourself' by quite a bit. But I figure 'all stitching needs completed', so it doesn't really matter where or how I work. I've seen people work on full coverage in all sorts of ways - strict blocks, diagonal blocks, cross country, complete one color at a time extreme cross country.
your dragon is awesome!!! truly!!!
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