So here it is, a design by Yvonne Horn of Papillon Creations, puclished in "The Gift of Stitching", Issue 57, October, 2010! And with the exception of some fudging for miscounting and switching out beads from my stash for the ones called for, this is stitched as instructed... Stitched on Wichelt's Permin of Copenhagen 32 count linen ("French Lace"), which might have been a mistake since I think some of the colors would have shown better on a pure white or even an antique white, but I didn't have any 32 count large enough in those colors; bad enought that I didn't have Q-snaps long enough either! ... Finsihed stitched area is 16 1/3" by 9 2/3 ".
It was the speciality stitching and the beading that really slowed me down... Here's a close-up of one of the border corners so you can see what that entailed:
I don't know if you can see the gold and peacock blue beads easily - I know the light yellow star stitched adn the cgold braid couching doesn't show up at all... But there are speciality stitchs in the border: Rhodes Sqaures, Ray stitches, Diamond Eyelets, Lazy Daisies, Rhodes Diamonds, Herringbone stitch, Fan Stitches, Couching and backstitch in addition to the beading, In teh center, ther are large Queen stitched (if you consider six threads large!), Tied Windmill stitches, Diagonal Fly stitches, and Star stitches as well as straight stitches on the birds' heads and backstitching on the feathers and paisley motifs. A sampler more than a picture, I think.
