Holi Greensleeves

Despite the flaw in the image above (hopefully because the canvas lifted up slightly there when I pressed down in the middle of Holi as she lay on the scanner bed) you can see I've given up basketweave background in favor of stitching Holi's sleeve. This section is very complex and was supposed to be done in three different threads. So far I've used my two Kreinik greens, red Trebizond, peach Trebizond and am about to go shopping today for some lime green DMC so the background unstitched area can have apple green to match some of the overskirt colors. I will then add my yellow and orange overdyed Kreinik and then beads, either gold or orange or red or yellow. I am not sure about the bead colors yet. I could even use French knots instead of beads as Kandy Merric did on the original model.

She's coming right along but I can see I need to add the green to tie the sleeve to the rest of the design. Otherwise there is too much pattern going on. Well, too much for me!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
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