I have finished the lighter blue robe stitches below the wizard's waist and now I'm doing the darker blue ones on his sleeves, chest and hood. I hope to finish all that this week; it takes a while as there is a lot of compensation. That's why I always start at the largest area when doing fancy stitches. By the time I get to the place where there is lots of compensation to do, I've mastered the stitch. Therefore, I did the large hem first, then moved on to work the smaller sleeves and chest and hood parts.
Once the upper blue robe areas are finished I'll go back and stitch the entire blue robe with metallic Accentuate. I might even add some lovely little sequins on his blue robe to help it be as flashy as the purple under-robe is.
Next on my To Do list is to work on the stone background. There's a ton of that to do still, and I probably am going to make the horizontal bar the firebird sits on longer. It looks ok in person but in photographs it looks too short.
The last thing on my To Do List is to check out Amy Bunger's website. Her September newsletter is up and when I headed over to see it, I realized that Robin K. has been *very* busy adding photos to many categories.
http://www.amybunger.com/current_enewsletters.html
Start at the link above to read the newsletter, but don't miss "What's New" or "Canvases" (love the Oriental stuff, Robin) and don't skip the Marj Hunter Designs section in "Canvases" because the beards are a great inspiration for what I might do with the wizard's hair and beard).
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