Saturday 1 August 2015

Box of Delights by Liz Almond

I had so much fun stitching Box of Delights and "auditioning" threads - but now it's all finished!

Here are my thread choices for the final block:


Thread Choices Block 6
Top L-R: Charleston Glisson Gloss, Ginger Tom PB48, Pink Zebra PB24
Bottom L-R: Wrath, Whale Song PB08, Chocolate Frog PB06
The final block stitched up:
Block 6
And the finished piece!
Box of Delights by Liz Almond Complete!
I do have some ideas for finishing it, but knowing me who knows when that will happen!
Liz will be having another SAL starting towards the end of the year, Pandora's Box and this design will involve Assisi and pulled work as well as blackwork!  Another design for the list........
Happy Stitching!

21 comments:

  1. Amazing finish! I think I might have to continue on and finish mine as well. :)

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  2. Congrats on your lovely finish! Pandora's Box sounds quite interesting, I'll be looking forward to seeing what that may look like :-)

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  3. congratulations! it's such a happy, colourful piece!
    I'm glad to know I'll watch you play with colour combos again in the future, it was great fun from here too. even so, I find the use of the name "Pandora's Box" quite terrifying, considering what was in it, but then again everything was fine until she actually opened it.. ;)

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  4. Congrats on a beautiful finish :). I love your choice of floss

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  5. Truely a delightful piece. Could I also thank you for being instrumental in helping me return to my stitching...after a long break. Reading and watching you has inspired me to return to my needles and thread and I already have a finish too!

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  6. Beautiful finish. All the colours came out really well together.
    My latest Joan Elliott project was a real Pandora's Box, lots of nasties and then Hope came out at the end!

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  7. congrats on a wonderful finish, love the happy colors of this one

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  8. Congrats! It's a beautiful finish!!

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  9. Congrats on your finish! it really looks like a box of candies

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  10. Hello Amanda, I saw that you had posted on a blog that was part of the WIPocalypse. I have not been in touch with you for so long. I have moved away from the Cross Stitch Forum for several reasons but I miss some of the regulars from there. Nice to see your blog it is wonderful. Crazy as it sounds I have just started a blog of my own. It is very new so not alot to see yet. I will be popping in off and on.

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  11. Box of Delights is very beautiful. The choices you've made color wise worked out wonderfully. Congrats on your finish!

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  12. Its gorgeous, Amanda! The colors you used are perfect! Well done!

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  13. Gorgeous, darlin'! Simply gorgeous!! (You have to pretend i said that in a southern drawl LOL!!)

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  14. Congratulations on finishing this lovely piece. So many different patterns inside the medallions and so many different colours.

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  15. It looks great! So colorful.

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  16. This looks so wonderful finished! I think I'll pick the Charleston as my favorite this round though I really like the design of pink zebra! The whole thing really does look like a box of delight~ :D

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  17. I totally missed this post! Love your stash storage photos Amanda..and you are totally right ,us stitchers do have a fascination (nosiness) when it comes to other stitchers' stash storage solutions.I love seeing different storage methods.
    Lovely stitching pics too.Your Liz Almond piece is gorgeous.

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  18. The colors are beautiful and your finish looks great!!!!!!

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  19. It is beautiful!!! You did a really good job of not having the same color right next to each other :)

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