Last night I finished the neck of our Rabbit Geisha and started working her cheeks and lower chin, then moved up toward her forehead. The photo shows my progress so far. Because I am using only one strand of my Burmilana (in white, light gray and medium gray) it is slow going.
Hopefully the photo is good enough to show how the neck, face and paws all look and gives enough detail that you can see how I am slanting the cheeks and forehead stitches to make them realistic yet blend.
I'm going to have to pad the nose. I tried overstitching my pink tent stitches with my Needle Necessities overdyed pink #8 perle cotton but that doesn't look smooth enough as you can see in the photograph. I'll pull out some pale pink silk from my stash and see what I can do to raise the nose a bit.
This is only the first layer of stitches. More will be laid on top to smooth out various areas once more of the face is done.
I did a little background last night, too. I need to do some of that every night so I don't have miles of background to finish at the end. I've temporarily abandoned working on Glittering Kimono. I just can't work two projects at once when they both need concentration!
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