I put aside my drawn work piece for the weekend and picked up
the phone case I ordered a few months back. I had been picturing what I was going to do for a while now. I have a purse that is turquoise with big white daisies on it. I thought I should mimic that pattern for my phone case. So, I went through the threads and opted for color fast DMC rather than the abundance of over-dyed I seem to have now. And with only an idea in my head I put the yellow on the needle and picked a spot. This is for certain not my general mode. I am a planner, and I usually would have gotten out the graph paper, and maybe even fought with some software to chart this out, but not this time. I made a Rhodes Octagon for the center of the daisy and went from there. The petals are far from perfect, but I like them. Once I had a daisy done I started on the background. I was working on it and realized I was going to run out of thread. I had chosen some of the thread that came with the case, and had no real reference or match. So, the bottom part of the case is a slightly darker shade. I did add the second daisy in an attempt to save on the background thread.
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| Phone case |
I think it turned out pretty cute. It doesn't lay flat on the stitched side since those Rhodes stitches are so thick. It's fun and I had a fun time stitching it.
I also pressed the Summer Garden.
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| Summer Garden |
Back to the Rose Trellis for me. The border work is getting tedious, but it will be good to get it out of the way so I can do the fun parts.
