Done!!!

 I've finished all the motifs for Term 1 of my Deep Dive into Goldwork online class!

I am more than happy about my circle. Basically, I'm ecstatic because I think it actually looks like it's supposed to!!! I'm pretty happy with the leaf, too, although I will say that if I never have to fight with the Rococo gold thread in the very middle again, I will be delighted. That stuff was a right royal pain in the posterior to work. It did not want to play well with the other threads, and I had to get out my awl to make a hole big enough to be able to plunge the ends to the back. I used foul language. A lot of foul language. I had to take a break and walk away.

Needlework should not make you use foul language or walk away.

But sometimes it does.

Anyway, this is the whole sampler of motifs for Term 1:

Today, I think I'll mount the linen and maybe take a stitch or two in Katie's Elizabethan Valentine.

I should dust. And vacuum.

If there's a choice between stitching and dusting, I think stitching will win.