The first week of summer has been quite busy, with doctor appointments and getting my car worked on - new brake lights!
I have been working on both the Santa of the Forest (1071 stitches this week - up to 26.88%) and the Vintage German Needlepoint (5 hours of 10 finished). Pictures on both of those will happen next week.
With all the appointment waiting time, I've actually finished all the stitching (including the little bit of backstitch) on the Musical Santa! I had originally planned on having it in the 'Modern' slot in the current rotation; instead, I was in the mood for some easy stitching as a travel project and have been working away on it in the background.
The kit paper was that silver metallic paper, but I don't enjoy working on it and I also do not like the coverage that you get, even with three strands of DMC floss as per the kit instructions. So I swapped out the paper for some simple vintage brown paper (it has very slight dappling). There were blank places on the chart where the metallic paper was supposed to show through, so I'm putting beads in there. Gold on the instruments and the boot laces, opal on the tunic edges.
In addition to the beads, there's the beard and some sequined embellishments, plus cutting out and backing. Hopefully there will be an FFO post later this week.
I have really liked having a small travel embroidery project, so I think I'll do the "Woodworker Santa" in honor of my father-in-law next!
Linking up with the SSS crew (current round-up).
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