Another picture heavy post....

My Garden Exchange made it safely to Nathalie in France. I was a bit nervous as this was the first time I had ever sent something overseas. It made it right on day 7:) Here is my first attempt at both a flat fold and cording. Not to toot my own horn, but I think I did a good job. I had to wrestle this out of Allen's hands. I got this pattern from Helen Phillip's Garden book. I changed the wording a bit to make it relate more to the fact that I was doing it for a stitching exchange.









Friday, I finally started working on Butterfly at Rest. I began with the giant blue triangle on the bottom left. While stitching on Butterfly Dawn, Allen dubbed these triangles the "big blue triangles of doom" These triangles were the main reason why that piece took me 18 months to finish. I was not doing a rotation then and I would get so tired of them that I would put it away for a long time. Currently, I am itching to get back to this on Friday and hope to finish the first triangle.










Last night, I took out Mystery IX instead of my lilies. I was able to get the entire top right corner completed, minus the beading. I also started some of the back stitching down the left side. Here it is so far:)