UFO No. 1

This will be a short post (for me) since I am prone to blathering.

Earlier this year I posted a list of my UFO's with the intention of reducing its size.  Well, progress has been made on that intention!  First, I said good-bye to those projects which I knew I was never going to finish.  That shortened the list by five!

Then I picked three that I thought were doable and made finishing them one of my stitching goals for this year.  Here is the first of those finishes:

The "before" shot of Marsha-Papay Gomola's

Ruby of the Forest.

And we have a finish!

This was originally supposed to feature a spider web

and a spider hanging by a filament

in front of the cardinal's nose.

On the branches there were to be pink flowers.

Since I intend to use this as a Christmas ornament,

I decided to ditch the spider theme and make it more wintry.

The finishing isn't the greatest, but I did the best I could.

From this angle you can see how the cardinal

is somewhat three-dimensional,

with padding under his body.

I am hard at work on UFO No. 2, and hope that it will

be featured soon on this blog.

Thanks, as always, for visiting!