Sunday 10 May 2015

SAL update - week 1 of Viennese Waltz

Good morning ladies and gentlemen.  It's time for a Stitch Along update.  As you know, I finished Save the Stitches and so I had to dig out another WIP to work on.

I chose Viennese Waltz by John Clayton, a counted cross stitch kit.  I stitched another kit in the series, Tango 5 years ago, that was my third ever blog post!  I started this one about a year later, but it got packed away.  Here is how it looked three weeks ago:


I think I know why it was packed away, I've discovered a lot of mistakes in the purple area!  I'm just ignoring them and working round them, it's not vital to the design.  Here is where I am now.


I've actually done quite a lot of that background, it's just difficult to see.  I'm going to plug on and get the background finished before I start the next page.  I took the photo with the frame resting on one of the bunny runs, so I thought I'd snap a photo of the occupants.


The other two were hiding from me.


You can go and see what the other participants have been up to here:


Claire at Claire93's blog

Gun at Rutigt



Alison at Minerva Handmade


Elizabeth at Stitch 4 Therapy

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh this is a lovely piece! look forward to your next update ^^

Anonymous said...

I agree with Claire. This is very lovely!
Gun

Rachel said...

Yes, absolute details in the background won't matter here, as long as overall, the graduation is about right.

Anonymous said...

That's a lovely design and the purple background looks fine :)

Unknown said...

Oh i can see why you put this one away but now it will be finished at last. It's very pretty :-)

Christine B said...

Looks a beautiful cross stitch design. Pretty colours! :) x

Anonymous said...

Lovely! The graduation in the purple is much prettier now; you've done a lot of work!

Anonymous said...

Lovely! The graduation in the purple is much prettier now; you've done a lot of work!

Christine said...

That looks lovely

Flickenstichlerin said...

Your stitchery looks beautiful.
Greetings,
Sylvia

Pamela said...

Beautiful! Great progress.

Sarah in Stitches said...

Great stitching! I love the colors in this piece :D

Martha said...

So beautiful! And the purple background looks perfect. It is going to be a master piece.

Janine @ Rainbow Hare said...

This is a lovely piece. It's amazing how detailed and realistic the faces look. And lovely to see the bunnies too :)

Jane said...

I shall look forward to seeing progress on this one, happy stitching

Anonymous said...

beautiful colors ♥

Sheryl said...

Lovely design and you made quite a bit of progress. Will be nice to see it finished.