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Here is a new start, my 2015 Christmas project: Joan Elliott’s Christmas Angel.  I’m stitching her on 32 count Winter Skye opalescent lugana by Silkweaver (old).  I want more Christmas cross stitch for my house.  There is already a lot of cross stitch on the walls.  My end goal would be to switch out a significant number of those pieces for the holidays.  My Floss toss:

I only intended to stitch around 25% of the chart, but I didn’t want to stop at that point.  The colors in this piece really enamor me.  This is an aspect of Joan Elliot designs that I really appreciate- she creates rich shading without using a zillion colors.  

So, she is around 50% complete.  What’s left would be the upper body, wings, head, etc.  Finishing this year is a possibility, as I got to this point in about 1 month of stitching time (some evenings).  This fabric is much prettier in real life.  Next time I’ll try my actual camera (not iphone) and natural light.