The right hand sleeve (August) is finished now. It's a very pretty stitch. The straight stitches alone make a slightly floral delicate background and if you just stitch one side of the framing that surrounds the underlying floral, it is also quite nice. This is a very versatile stitch! I topped the Sparkle Braid in step one with one strand of the nine from a skein of Lorikeet, an overdyed wool by Gloriana. This wool is shades of my pink and rose, and the color is Rosebud Pink Medium. I should have used Impressions if I'd stuck to my thread plan but I was afraid that the Impressions was thick enough to totally hide the Sparkle Braid underneath, not just frame it. Remember, I am using a much smaller ground fabric than the 18 count Tony specified in his instructions for Glittering Kimono.
In person you still see the metallic although you can't see it sparkle in the photo above. See the little purplish patch high on the left shoulder? I also added my Judy's Block stitches there, doing the blocks themselves in plum Splendor silk (4 plies) surrounded by tent stitches in my lighter plum Impressions (one strand), the thread I should have used on the August section. This area should have been a continuation of the top blue stitch but I forgot about doing it once I stopped at the couching line. So I added a bit of myself here in a color that I wanted to put over in the area as it is one of my three main colors of pink, blue and plum purple but there are only pink and blue there if I follow Tony's road map.
Now I have to tackle May and finish it before the September stitch comes out. Hurry, hurry!
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