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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: mah arse
Current Music: WoW in the background

I filled up the hole I made in my embroidery piece. Now that spot just looks kind of puckered and sloppy.

I removed the red bars, and I'm thinking I'll take out the black border as well. Before I started mending the cut I made, I had envisioned this mandala in bright, strong colors. Now it's all blues & greens, so the red bars & black border are iffy. I'm going to turn the red bar spaces into blue waves.

There will be 5 rows of the turquoise beads, that much I know. I started trying to make braids of deep green & blues, but when I tried to couch them on to the wavy lines in the bottom circle, I found out how difficult couching can be. I think it would work better with a thicker, slightly stiffer type of floss or specialty yarn, not a loosely braided hunk of embroidery floss.

It's kind of cool doing this at work because I invariably end up w/an audience. It's like no one's ever seen anyone embroider anything.

Here is the ensuing picspam:

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Location: mah arse
Current Music: Control - Puddle of Mudd

I've been working on a semi-ambitious embroidery project. It's a design from Klaus Holitzka's Native American Mandalas coloring book called 'Rising Rain Deity'. I was originally thinking of giving it to Jody, but it's rapidly becoming the needlework equivalent of something you'd hang on a refrigerator.

This is the original from the coloring book:

I was attempting to do a button-hole type thingie with the small ring in the bottom circle. I was planning on making the button-hole an ochre yellow & stringing a bead in the center of the hole. It involved snipping the cloth into a cross & stitching the excess cloth underneath the button-hole stitch. You can probably see where this is going, huh?