Tried a different kind of pin stitch this time... I like it better. It's MUCH less visible from the front, and it seems like it holds the thread just as well as the other, so I think I'm going to stick with this one unless I discover that it's not actually as secure as I thought.
Pretty sure I'm done with the darkest red on this section of robe. Not sure whether I'm going to stick with one colour at a time, or work from the bottom up now.
All of the dark red up to the top of the gold section should now be done, just have the top 3rd or so to do to bring it up to her belt. Then on to the next colour!
More dark red... that one's going to take a while for this section; there's a lot of it. Well, all of the reds probably. It's hard to tell just how much of the other reds there are since the symbols have similar weights. The dark red was the easiest to pick out from the surrounding symbols, which was why I started with it.
I'm too lazy to take it out of the Q-snap until I have to move it, so you can't really see the entirety of what was completed today, but I finished off all the grass down at the bottom.
Tried out the pin stitch on the red sections and that one green stitch out in the middle of nowhere. I'm still not sure if I like it or not. I mean, I like the way it holds the threads, I'm just not sure if I like the look of it: you can see the difference in the stitches from the front, but hopefully they will be better hidden when there are stitches adjacent to help hide it. They'd probably look better on a smaller count or if I were using three strands instead of two... basically, if I had better coverage.
Finished off the purple inside of the red robe, and did the turquoise border. I was planning on also finishing off the grass and a couple of the lower flowers on the right side, but it didn't turn out. Tomorrow, maybe.
The gold under-robe worked up a LOT faster than I thought it would. I won't be putting in the metallic thread until the end either. I don't know what would happen to them when the Q-Snap is over top... I don't want them to snap or crack.
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don't want to do the beads and ribbons on the bouquet until I've had a chance to wash and press it, and since I don't currently own an iron, we're back to the Red Geisha again! I'm working on the next section of robe now, the gold under-robe with the black circles (and metallic-thread diamonds, I discovered tonight to my chagrin... I was hoping it was only used for backstitching, but oh well).
