Beaded Boxes

Last night I finished the shawl collar's boxes of both colors. I did do fake eyelets in the blue boxes by using tent or reverse tent stitches all around the edge. I left the centers bare and added pink beads which are attached with a cross stitch using one ply of my deep plum Splendor S1037. I thought since the beads are all sitting on top of a thread intersection due to the way the blue boxes are painted, that a cross stitch would secure them better than my more usual doubled thread through and then stitched again with one ply on either side of the bead.

I used 4 plies of DMC 964 for the blue boxes, which is a lighter version of the teal blue thread (DMC 187) that outlines the cleaning woman's yakuta on the left side. The canvas is painted this way and I think the color looks very good with the plums and dusty pinks in The Geisha's robe.

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