Another quickie

Started stitching a 'goldwork' damselfly that I've been wanting to do for years - since I first saw <-this picture of the project in the Anchor Beginners' Guide to Freestyle Embroidery book. As you can see from my WIP photo, I've cut the design down to half as, pretty as it is, all the couching is a little dull and it's easier to use as a small design (can be mounted in a card no probs) than a larger one, which might need framing. £$£$£$£$£!! I've also made some colour changes. The book says that the fabric is deep blue silk, but this photo looks more like it's purple to me (if you saw the book proper, it's even more 'red' there!) so I fished out a very vibrant royal blue colour silk to work on, backed with dark Vilene, as ever! I also change the colours of the threads for the bodies from the blue and green cotton in the book to 2 shades of turquoise with black for the eyes of Anchor Marlitt (rayon) to increase the glimmer effect of the whole thing. Here it is so far and, if you look carefully, you can see the outline of the wings. I did this bit in about an hour and a half last night.

Oh, how I am enjoying quick projects at the mo, but after this, I must get that cushion/pillow cover made up for baby sis and then get back on with the bluetits cross stitch. I think that the latter is, frankly, boring me!! Still, I can do a bit on that and a bit on something else, no? Kind of a rotation. Do a few pieces of thread on the bluetits, then move on to something more interesting.