I've started putting the gold threads on the Peony. This is colored couching:
Colored couching is exactly what it says--you hold down pairs of metal threads with colored thread.
And I have discovered I can only do a limited number of hours focusing on shiny metal thread before my eyes cross. So, I'm planning to work on this slowly and deliberately and do a little every day.
Which means I have more time to work on Elizabeth, who isn't shiny at all. I've started working on the lettering:
This is the adaptation part of the sampler--cross stitch instead of eyelets and tent stitch instead of over-one crosses--and I don't think Elizabeth Hall would object at all.
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