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Terrific color choices and amazing stitching as always.

I wanna be you when I grow up .

Beautiful You have a great eye for color schemes
Faith

Beautiful work Mabel! I like how you've ordered the bands for your bell pull, very good eye! Excellent finish on Lustrum, and good start on Percival!

Some progress on Percival -- all stitching, beads and bling done apart from cutting and weaving -- the photos don't do the beads and bling justice, alas but I like how it's developing



and a close up:

Oh, my!!

Beautiful - absolutely beautiful - and the beads and bling look wonderful in the close up photo!

Wow! It's so lovely!

Love the black one and Percival is looking good to. You are one talentated lady

very very pretty!!!

Gorgeous colors!!!!!!!!

Gorgeous work!

Fabulous!
You are very talented as a photographer, too I love your close-ups. Why mine never turn up nearly as good?

Woah!
I like your work... very classy & elegant. The one with turquoise shades makes me want a huge tapestry-like fabric for my chairs, hah

Beautiful stitching Mabel. Your designs are gorgeous.

I saw a pic on the internet of a piece of hardanger where the eyelets were done in variegated thread, and I thought I'd try something similar, using the variegated thread for the filling stitches as well. Here it is, on 28ct opalescent Lugana, using DMC perles (#5 and #12) and Gloriana Princess Perle Petite, plus a flower charm. the only thing I don't understand is why it came out slightly rectangular instead of square, when I stitched it in a hoop...

Did the cutting on Percival, and also poked all the cut ends away (though when I looked at the photograph close up I noticed one had escaped!) -- now all that is left is the needle weaving and filling stitches

GORGEOUS!!!!!!

Amazing job as always Mabel!

Beautiful work!!!!

Mabel, great work. I'd discovered eyelets done in variegated colours when doing a design by Nordic Needlecraft (the Inverness group). It's really effective for just little spots of colour without jeopardising a classic white on white design. You can see it on a piece in my gallery.
That square white design would look very Christmassy by using Caron Holiday (red and green, basically) as the eyelets and putting a seasonal charm in the centre to replace the little flower... Is it your own design, or did you find it somewhere online?

Serinde, I charted it myself, but it is such a basic design (square with an uncut diamond in the middle) that I would hesitate to call it "my own design" -- but I didn't take it from a mag or online or anything, no, just the idea of the variegated eyelets.
I've got a Needlepoint Inc silk in variegated red and green which I may try; I charted about 5 variations on a theme so I won't get bored with the same one over again.

PS Had a look at your gallery -- reminded once again of the beautiful work you've done! -- and saw that the one I got my eyelet inspiration from is the same one you did ! I've been uhmming and ahh-ing whether to get the chart, it's a lovely design, but I've got so much lined up already it's gone on my long-term wish list