I've finished about half of the cacti motifs around the center panel. These are almost all worked in silks (so pretty! so soft!) with the exception of the little orange blossoms and the pale yellow on the sagebrush. I'm stitching this on a 28-count Lugana in the Calypso colorway from Picture This Plus fabrics. I'm at the point where it's time to roll the fabric up so I can work on the top portion, which is what I will do next go-round and try to finish up the remaining cacti motifs.
I think my plan once those are done will be to work just on the top half until that is finished and then move the fabric again to work on the bottom half. (I say this like I'll be zipping through that, but this is a BIG project with lots of detail, so it'll be a while). The next sections to be worked on this will be a speciality stitch octagon-shaped border around the cacti, and then the exterior landscape motifs and the feathers that go between them.
Once I had finished work for this rotation on my Chatelaine, I moved over to work on another full coverage piece. This is Six of Swords from Stephanie Pui-Mun Law's Tarot collection, charted by Heaven and Earth Designs. I'm stitching this on 25-count Easy Guide fabric. I had the first 800 stitches put in to this already, and I'll be working on this through the end of the month of January (albeit a bit hit and miss since I've got some travel coming up).
I'll see how far I get on this one, but I'd like to try for a page finish by the end of February, if I can, to keep up with my personal Year of WIPs/WIPocalypse goals of a page finish on each of my full-coverage pieces in 2018. (For those of you keeping score, there will be 6 full-coverage pieces on the go this year.)
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