I finished part 10 of the Celtic Garden Mandala! Well, almost. I ran out of the darkest grey floss while stitching the inner trees, so I have a few more little branches to stitch.

Here ’tis, before I stitched the moon:

This was the first part in which I had to make a big change to the original directions because I’m stitching over-1 instead of over-2. The flowers were charted as 3×3 eyelets. However, on Aida there is no center hole to pull the threads out of, and it just doesn’t look right. So I designed my own little flower instead. You can see it here, along with the moon:

I also stitched the winter and spring moons: