Ruth Schmuff's latest mystery class (Shelly Penko's "Bohemian Beauty") was never my favorite design. I found the original too amorphous. What are all those blobs of color? I can't stitch something if I don't know what it is. That's just a quirk of mine. Give me a canvas with blobs on it and I am lost.
Ruth isn't. She uses various sizes and colors of stitches to define the areas and bring some forward while letting others recede. She made "Bohemian Beauty" gorgeous!
http://www.notyourgrandmothersneedlepoint.com/2014/06/foreground-background-and-everything-in.html
If you are trying to achieve dimension in your stitching, you need to study Ruth's mystery piece carefully. Here are links to photos that can be enlarged.
http://stitcherie.ning.com/photo/lesson-4-3?context=latest
http://stitcherie.ning.com/photo/rug?context=latest
http://stitcherie.ning.com/photo/face-4?context=latest
UPDATE: Here is the finished piece framed in a sparkle frame. Neat!
http://www.notyourgrandmothersneedlepoint.com/2014/11/shes-home-from-framer.html
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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