Across the bottom I did clusters of Silk Ribbon Roses.
I did give these clusters there own detail number but they could equally well be considered as an extention to the Ooh La La detail
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Across the top of the photo I have put three lace flowers, with bead centres and green lazy daisy leaves, in the left hand corner and then lightly sprinkled beads across the top of the photo and down the sides…I put tiny straight stitch leaves on the bead closest to the corner and after looking at the photo I will add tiny leaves to all the beads around the edge.
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When I put the gathered organza ribbon on the top and left edges I was still going to put lace flowers in the bottom right corner…but…
 
When I put some lace flowers along the bottom and right edges and stood back from it the flowers didn’t balance the ribbon…More gathered organza ribbon on the other edges…Still not sure it is working, while thinking about it I used a slightly darker green thread to do stem Stitch along the edge of the photo…Umm I am starting to like it, I find it quite amazeing that a thin line, that can barely be seen, can make a big visual difference to how a piece looks…
Know that I like what is happening around the photo I think that it will only need a few lace flowers and beads scattered around the edges to finish it.
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 When I prepared the photo to put on the block I put a layer of batting under the photo….Before stitching the photo on I took the batting out because it made the photo sit to high off the block.
Originally I was going to put the beaded braid along the left side and across the top, when I got the photo stitched on I didn’t like the way the braid looked and thought if I put the gathered organza ribbon under the braid it would blend the braid in….
When I got the organza ribbon stitched on I still didn’t like the way the braid looked and thought about what else I could do…I like the look of the green beads but don’t have enough green beads and opted for a line of green Stem Stitch
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To Finish the patch with the gold design I added 2 extra pieces in the middle so the the design has a continuous flow from top to bottom.
 
To add the extra parts to the gold design I cut around parts of the gold design from the unused fabric, backed the cut out pieces with fusible webbing, ironed them in place on the patch and did a few stitches with a gold thread to reinforse the fusible webbing.
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This is an Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch trimmed with beads.
Holiday Snaps Day 25
and Day 26 home
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 As Sharon suggested, Thorn Stitch, this weeks TAST Stitch, makes good trees and I have used it to make a Christmas tree on a stocking.
I started with a brown Stem stitch for the trunk and worked the Thorn Stitches close together…The red metalic thread, that didn’t work for Chain Braid Stitch, did make nice tinsel on the tree, I also used gold metalic thread, petit gold beads and a gold star bead for decoration…a Satin Stitch pot completes the tree.
Holiday Snaps Day 23
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Doing some TAST stitches catch up…The Stitch for week 27 was Chain Braid Stitch.
I Started with a thick metalic thread, almost impossible to pull through the fabric and it snagged on itself forming the twists and I was having trouble forming the stitch and have ended up with individual knots.
For my second attempt I chose a thinner, smoother metalic thread and had no difficulty stitching with it but whereas I had thought that it would hold the stitch shape well it actually slipped pulling the knot down to the bottom, so again I have something different to what I thought I would.
Third time lucky! Using a size 5, cotton perle thread I tried again…I was starting to think that I really didn’t like this stitch but by this stage I had worked out how to do the stitch and with the suitable thread I enjoyed doing the stitch.
Holiday Snaps Day 22
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 Again I have changed my mind mid seam…I chose to do a ruched ribbon because I wanted to cover some parts of the gold design on the fabric…Next I was going to add beads as I usually do to the ruched ribbon…But the reason for covering parts of the gold was to show off the shapes of the gold design and beads would have been to close to the gold and be distracting.
I thought about leaving it with no further embellishment but it didn’t look finished, I was a bit flumaxed as to what else I could do until I looked at the other seams that border the gold design…that was it a little repetition would work…I found the fabric and cut out a couple of extra bits of the design, because they are small pieces as well as putting them on with fusible webbing, I used a gold thread to stitch them on.
Holiday Snaps Day 21
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 After doing Herringbone Stitch and Colonial Knots on this seam, I looked at it and thought a thicker thread would have looked better because, when working in monochromatic colours, it is the texture of the stitch against the surface that I look for…I thickened the thread by overlaying the first row of Herringbone Stitch with a second row worked over the threads of the first row.
Holiday Snaps Day 20
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