Thanks for the little push on making it a UFO weekend. While not officially a UFO, my mermaid project has been languishing. I'm in the "eating your peas" part of the project - the over-1 alphabet on 35-ct linen that is SO much easier in the sunshine, and I usually don't get stitching time til night. I won't let myself have the "dessert" of the final mermaid motif until I finish the alphabet and another over-one verse, and somehow the more fun to do projects keep creeping ahead.
Here's the photo (again...still....y'alll have seen this before):
Thanks, Karen!
Tonight and tomorrow night I hope to finish the beading on another project. I've made two standups from "M Designs" personalized Christmas ornaments (memorial gift for a friend who's recently lost both her parents - trees with her parents' names). I made cording to put around it, then left the ends dangling into a sort-of (but not quite!) tassel. I think there are 16-twisted layers of floss - six strands - two ends of the cord, so that's 32X6 threads. I'm stitching a green seed bead on the end of each strand, cutting them to varying lengths. It would look a little sketchy if it were a hanging ornament, but good when it's a standup and it kind of fills and spills the opening, if you can imagine what I'm trying to describe! I'll get DD over here with her camera before I send them to my friend and will post a photo at that time. (A picture is worth a thousand works, right?) It's like the 4th and 5th photos on this page, except I'm unravelling the cording and stitching on beads: