A bit stumped

No, not with stumpwork, but with the goldwork. First though, thanks to Carol-Anne for the idea on getting the crease out - sounds like a plan!

I'm not at all sure how to re-plan the design beyond the outline. I'd like to have some filled in areas as the original does, but, as you can see from the photo above, gold is not just one colour! The gold kid leather is really a very different shade from the regular goldwork threads' shade and there are Kreinik and Anchor threads to both match and fill in any gaps! The piece of gold kid leather I have is very much a green-ish gold whilst the rest of the goldwork threads are getting towards the orange shade, (with the copper threads showing up the real red gold). The Japan threads in the middle are a great yellow gold and then there are greenish and white-ish shades on the right of the photo. So, I need colours that co-ordinate well and, as I want to use copper for the 'back elevation', I really need to be looking at the orange-gold selection, saving one of the whiter shades for the strings. I just don't know enough about goldwork to plan ahead with confidence and have no good references with me. So, I'm still far from ready to set off with this one!=(

I've done a bit more on the little mouse though - put in his tail and the flora around him, part of it for the second time.

My blog hits have really gone up over the last couple of months, so many thanks to all visitors and those who have been kind enough to list me as 'worth a visit' on their blogs and other sites recently. I need to live up to that, don't I??=)LOL! Well, I've just been visiting the blogs of several ladies who list 'stumpwork' and/or 'goldwork' on their Blogger profiles in the hope of finding some new eye candy, but I find that there's a world of difference between being interested in something and actually blogging about it!! Can't really complain as there are any number of interests on my profile list that I don't blog about much, if at all!