Present

Now I am sewing again I am catching up fast. Mum's present has been finished by filling in the gaps between experiments with recreations of some of the shading exercises I did early on because they are pretty.

I also used a little more of the gold thread to create little decorative corner stars at the top right and bottom left to unify the whole strip though possibly a few more down the sides might help. To be honest I think I prefer the first strip I did but I will see what it is like when I have finished it off with a felt back and ribbon edging. It is still quite pretty anyway.

So the plan now is to finish off the bellydancer before moving on to Christmas presents.