Inspiration Dragon Slayer

It is done! Although I underestimated the time involved, I was still able to get it done in one 5 day sprint :)

Here is the original design this is based off of:

I'm not really feeling the bugle and seed beads I ended up using for the gems in the original, but given the size of the piece the backstitched gems I'd originally charted didn't look very good at all.
I'll need to figure out how I'm going to finish this. The gem by the dragon's tail is quite high off the fabric, so I might have to go for a shadow box so that it has enough space.

Inspiration Dragon Slayer

And there's the dragon that is to be slain! And all the accessories with which to slay it!

The dragon's scales (the outline, not including the belly), are done with two strands, a dark green, and a copper blending filament to give it a bit of sparkle. There's still some yellow, orange, and red in the piece, which is why I chose the copper; I figured that it would be an okay match with all four colours. A gold probably would have worked too, but I figured that if the colour was going to stand out against any of the other colours, the green would be best, plus green and copper scales would probably look cool.

The dragon's eye is going to be a red sparkly bead, and I'm hoping to find a few more charms and beads and sequins to scatter around, as there are some gems and coins in the original piece.

Inspiration Dragon Slayer

Left and bottom borders are done (yay!). Right side border mirrors the left, except it's got the year in its bubble. 

You can see now why I've called it Inspiration Dragon Slayer!

Took a couple tries to get the French knot right in the O in Dragon (and I'm still not 100% happy with it), but I'm operating under the assumption that I'm the only one who will care :)

Inspiration Dragon Slayer

Change of plans! My black linen showed up in the mail yesterday, so I'm turning my attention to this piece until it's done (it shouldn't take too long).

This is a piece I charted out based off a shirt that we got from work for a recent event. When I saw the design on the shirt, I thought it would make a good blackwork piece. It's going to be a slightly-elongated square (100x110 stitches), and the part that I've already done marks off the entire 100 stitch width. So you can roughly see how big it's going to be based on the top border!

It's a little bit wonky looking atm, since I didn't get the piece perfectly straight in the q-snap, but it should straighten out when it comes off the frame (hopefully...).

I'm hoping to have this done by Saturday at the latest, at most imposing on one 5-day sprint. I might even get some Autumn Tree done in this sprint.