Delicate, Light, and rather Elegant!
I’ve never been one for samplers, but lately, the email groups that I’m part of have chatted about Papillon Creations’ 2009 Stitch Along Mystery Sampler, Castles in the Air. You are supposed to use the 10 charted colors and choose 11 colors on your own to finish off the color chart. I took to the challenge and sought out fabric, thread and beads that I had on hand and decided to join in.
This is my Mystery Sampler after completing Part 1. I purchased both the cross stitch version and the specialty version of the SAL. I decided to stitch the specialty version simply because I LOVE EMBROIDERY! Surface embroidery is still my all time favorite needle and thread creation, and this SAL has been surprisingly enjoyable.
The photos don’t show all the ‘bling’ and glitter that really is on this canvas. I used a ‘Vintage Gold’ metallic thread as my one specialty thread. It’s a black with a gold twist wound around it. All in all it gives this part, the Formal Garden, a look of wrought iron. I just love it!
I love this pinkish color. I think these flowers look like hibiscus.
I didn’t keep the original 10 colors assigned. Yes, I know… I cheated. I changed the blues to match the other colors that were free choice. My new ‘peacock blues’ match the hues of my other choices now.
This is the photo that I sent in to be uploaded on Papillon Creations website. Hopefully, my Part 1 will show up here soon.
Your life needs fun. Go ahead, have some fun!
smiles,
alicia in Hawaii
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16 Comments
May 20, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Looks awesome! Love your color choices.
May 20, 2009 at 5:52 pm
This is beautiful – fantastic job!
May 20, 2009 at 6:02 pm
It looks wonderful. Can not wait to see part two. Love the colors
May 21, 2009 at 12:36 am
Your choice of colors is simply fantastic Alicia. Love love love it. Beautiful stitching as well. Looking forward to see more.
May 21, 2009 at 1:33 am
Alicia…..it looks beautiful! Your colors just look gorgeous together.
May 21, 2009 at 2:04 am
Looks very nice. Congrats on the finish of Part One.
May 21, 2009 at 2:34 am
The beads add such dimension. Congrats on finishing part 1.
May 21, 2009 at 4:05 am
So glad you decided to join us in this SAL Alicia!
It looks fantastic so far!
May 21, 2009 at 6:59 am
I love the look of that. Very elegant.
May 21, 2009 at 9:22 am
This looks really lovely, love the idea of choosing your own thread colours.
May 21, 2009 at 10:08 am
I love the colours you’ve chosen, your SAL is very pretty!
May 21, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Very pretty part one. I joined this one too, just haven’t decided on colors. But I love seeing WIP from others.
May 27, 2009 at 2:54 am
This is fantastic! Great colour choices!
May 28, 2009 at 8:34 am
Wow… That is so gorgeous!
June 2, 2009 at 7:22 am
I love it on linen! It’s so elegant. I’m stitching mine on aida because I haven’t mastered linen yet.
July 30, 2009 at 5:45 am
Hello, I just happened to come across your blog via some of your cross stitch pictures and I just had to comment on the lovely “kitchen stitcheries” with the beads. They are fabulous.
I too have started the “Castles…” peice (however late) and discovered how much I really like the sparkle that the beads add.
All lovely stitcheries.
Thanks for sharing,
Tammy T.