I've been stitching the blue over robe on the Joan Thomasson Holiday Spirit Santa. The stitch is a Mosaic variation from Brenda Hart's Favorite Stitches (bottom of page 4 if you own this book) that I'm stitching in one ply of a medium blue Splendor (S860) for the bottom from of the robe and one ply of a slightly darker blue in Soie Crystale silk (7053) for the sleeves and the waist above the gold belt. Eventually I will do both sleeves in the darker blue and the bottom of the robe in the slightly lighter shade. I've not decided about the front of the wizard's chest yet but I probably will use the darker blue. We'll see.
Everyone stay safe this holiday, particularly all of you in Louisiana and Mississippi and southern Alabama, not to mention Texas.
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