As much as I like the look of designs on dark fabric, I have to admit I detest stitching them on dark fabric.
That is probably the biggest “lesson” or reminder from revisiting this design. I plan to finish it, but I do not enjoy the process of stitching it right now. I probably would have been better off to have used the recommended fabric that was used for the model, which appears to be a shade of olive green, but I’m not going to re-start it.
I do love how sparkly the design is, which is hard to see in flat photographs. It has a lot of beads, and that is one of my favorite embellishments for cross stitch.
During the month of January, I decided to work on the tail fin on the right side of her body.
Here are before and after photos, taken at different times of the day with varying light, which accounts for the difference in colors:
Just caught up with your posts–WOW!! You’ve been knocking things out! Had forgotten about the desert counted cross-stitch.