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My Celtic Garden Mandala is finished!!!
The one color change I made in this part was to do the outer borders of the ornaments in DMC 4130 instead of a solid red. To “sign” the piece, I put my initials inside one ornament:
As for the new start, it is Mini Mystery Mandala 3 (otherwise known as MMM-03). I love the colors in this and it’s a small version of the next Chatelaine I’ll be doing, Medieval Town.
I’m using the suggested DMC conversion for the solids, Dinky Dye cottons, and Weeks Dye Works Moss in place of Thread Gatherer Camouflage. I bought the bead pack, but not the crystals. In this part, I used the light blue Petite Braid leftover from Celtic to stitch eyelets in place of the crystals.
The fabric is 16 ct. lambswool Aida (which I’ll also be using for the larger design).
One of my goals for 2008 was to finish stitching the top half of Dragon Fae 1 from Heaven and Earth Designs (charted from a painting by Selina Fenech). I completed that goal today! She is stitched on 25 count lugana, 1 over 1. I’m doing half-stitches for the background, to soften it a little.
Another of my goals for the year finished! I completed my version of Blackstone Fantasy Garden from Ink Circles:
The blues are HDF silks from Vikki Clayton (light is Yonder Sky and dark is Zaffre Cobalt) and the metallics are various colors of Kreinik and Petite Treasure Braid. They don’t show up well, but there are a few different shades of whites and silvers.
I haven’t had time to get this to the framer yet. I want to try a place a block from where my job is headquartered, instead of Michaels. Hopefully I can get there sometime this week.
Next I need to finish my Chatelaine Celtic Garden Mandala. I’m halfway through the border!
Once again, I’m behind in posting updates. I completed part 11 of the Celtic Garden Mandala in November, but then forgot to put it on here.
Here is one corner:
I had a hard time figuring out which color to use for the red dividers. Martina suggested DMC 350 as the subsitute, but it seemed just a bit too bright, so I went one shade darker to 349. Now that I’m doing the ornaments that go in between those dividers, I think 350 would have looked better. Oh well, I’m not frogging the darn things!
