This is SOOOOOO late, the last woodland embroidery

 

I know that Nov and Dec were never listed. It was because I just couldn't decide what I wanted to do in these last 2 sections. I just finished the top area last weekend. I never wrote down what colors and amounts of floss I used due to the stress I was having over it.

Below the cat I put 2 small yo-yos. I'll be adding beads to them so they will lay flatter. In fact I'll be adding more beads all over but it needs to be stretched and lightly steamed first.

The top area has a fence using narrow grosgrain black ribbon. If you look to the right of that section over by the pond you'll see a few branched of yellow and green ribbon embroidery. That's what is left from the original embroidery done in that area. It was one of the original sections I did years ago that I grew to really dislike but felt bad about removing it since it was silk ribbon. I have a lot of silk ribbon, hand dyed, YLI and old Bucilla, so decided to use some up for the flowers.

What I learned while making this was to add the borders of fabric before embroidery since I wanted to stitch near the edge. I think I'd also decide what embroidery I want in each section so I can get the threads and supplies sorted before I start.

Here's the piece with all the embroidery just waiting for stretching, borders, beads. and finally the batting and backing. I'm not happy with some of it but at last I got all the embroidery done. All those french knots above the bee skeep are still too many.