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That's pretty!

mabel...i'm really glad you don't do big pieces. that's the last place any of us have to "shine" without you!

your stuff is sooooooooooo amazing. you can't imagine how many people i have told about your little tea tray and that piece on your finger tip. people who don't know/care about our hobby...i make them listen too.

even your hardanger "attempts" are beyond belief. ugh! how do you do it all?

This looks just amazing! I can't see any shading differences in the picture, I'm sure you won't be able to see it once the rest of the colors are filled in!

This is fabulous Mabel! No need to frog anything, it's wonderful as it is.

This looks great - I love the gold thread...such a nice shine. I can't wait to see what colors you're going to put in the blank spaces...

Managed to have a stitchy Sunday so did the cupcake for the stitching course, and also some work on the tea tray. Finished the background *does little dance of delight* and couldn't resist putting the start of some colour in

Wonderful!!
It looks so good even now, that it's going to be a stunner once you have al the colour in as well!

Congrats on finishing the background! It's going to look stunning with the colour in it.

Oooh, it looks great!! Can't wait to see all the colors filled in!!!

Oh wow this is going to look so good!!!!!

Its wonderful

Your photos are always so good Mabel, but I do wish we could see the real thing when it is done.

Liz

Managed to do some more on the tea tray cloth first finished the two greens -- because it is so tiny the shading isn't very noticeable, but I'm hoping that in a subtle way it does make a difference, and makes it look less flat:



Then I did the forget-me-nots, and started on the darkest red. Again because of the scale of the piece I wasn't sure whether the single red stitch at the heart of the forget-me-nots would make any difference, but comparing the left to the right side I think it does *phew*



The dark red shines through very clearly behind the empty bits, but as it's going to be filled in I don't think that'll be a problem.

I'm thinking of possibly offering the design to Janet Granger, who does the doll's house kits -- I'm not going to stitch it again, and it seems a shame to waste it. Do you think she might be interested?

Its turned out lovely.Theres no harm in asking Janet Granger if shes interested,it would be one less design for her to think up

Your work is amazing and I think she would love the design!!!!!!!

This is lovely Mabel, I see the shading

She would be mad not to want your design.

Liz

Finished !

So here is the stitching, nearly done and all done:





Then came the nerve-racking bit, cutting around the buttonhole stitching. I could have cut it a little closer, but didn't want to risk it, so if you look VERY closely you may just see a few wisps of gauze sticking out a fraction of a millimeter



I then backed it with Vilene, and as it simply would not stay flat (not sure why), I attached it to the tray with four tiny bits of double-sided tape in the corners; I didn't want to stick it down completely because I thought that would look unnatural.

And here it is complete, one pic with the matchstitck-for-size





I'll give it to my MIL this Saturday.