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Such beautiful work and you are progressing so fast

Wonderful update! You're making great progress and stitching him beautifully!

Thank you

A bit more done. Was going to leave it a few more days but now whole kingfisher stitched I thought I would show you now as such lovely colours. Grasses started on bottom right of branch don't show up much as they are pale but will see more of those & white flowers next time.

Gorgeous little bird!

WOW you are flying through this for sure and I agree, what a beautiful colour that Kingfisher is. Looking forward to the next update.

You are speeding through this one. It is looking gorgeous

The colours are wonderful on this design. I am looking forward to the next update.

I also like your your choice of the design and stitching. Looking forward to next updates.

Beautiful progress!!!

Carole

Lovely update!!

Thank you all very much.

This has been easy to stitch as some fabric is left blank & there's only a few colour changes. When I've had a quiet few minutes late afternoons have been able to stitch a whole leaf or part of one. I now leave thread & needle in place ready to add a few stitches as I got a bit bogged down when I first started leaves top left & did quite a few over a few evenings. Decided to do a few at a time after that.

Wonderful update Izzi

Looks really beautiful

Thank you both Here is another pic after further 10 days. I turned the body round on the dragonfly as it seemed easier than trying to swap wings around. This means dragonfly is going downwards instead of flying upwards. I know dragonflies rest with open wings & damsel flies close their wings when resting. I did think of putting a slender piece of greenery there to make it look like the dragonfly was resting. But decided in the end to add a small leaf about where the body would have been if wings were correct way round.

I apologise if this picture was designed by anyone who belongs/has belonged to this forum but I just could not bring myself to stitch the wings round the wrong way. Insects need larger front wings to aid uplift when they take off. I can put up with a few stitches in the wrong place as my pictures are not identically stitched as per chart but I felt uneasy about the wings.

This pic is slightly tilted but shows top leaves & bottom flowers better

I love this Izzi and the damselfly looks absolutely fine! You're really getting on well with it!

We couldn't have a grounded damselfly now, could we? So you just HAD to change the wings! (In fact if you can find out who the designer is, why not contact her/him? If it were me, I'd want to know and put it right!)

Thank you both. I had the privilege of seeing an emperor dragonfly resting on a hedge in the early morning sun when we were on a camping holiday in Norfolk. DH & children were asleep so I took the dog out for a walk.

It was about 6 am, sun was rising on a clear, crisp morning & I didn't want to lie in bed with such lovely start to the day. The dog & I turned a corner & in the middle of the hedge which had recently been trimmed, was this beautiful turquoise dragonfly with wings outstretched. I was amazed to be able to see the veins in the insects wings & how like gossamer they were. So delicate & sheer. It must have been soaking up the suns rays before starting its day looking for food.

I think it was Simon King on one of the nature watch programmes who told the difference between dragonflies & damsel flies. The dragonfly has its wings open while resting & a damselfly closes its wings when at rest. Just one of those odd nature facts I happen to remember. I don't very often remember much of what they say but this one just stuck in my mind

That's a wonderful update! And I now know All about Dragonflies and Damsel Flies. Thank you!
Amazing just what this Forum can teach us!

Just last month we had a lovely electric blue, 2.5 to 3" long dragonfly land on the Leylandi hedge behind us, just a foot away from where we were sitting. It was 4 inches from the nose of Rooster, one of our cats, who had his eyes closed and did nothing. I nudged my wife & pointed to it. The cat heard the rustle, opened his eyes and MUNCH, our nature watch came to an abrupt end.

Hrrumph.

Gorgeous picture, though, and I thoroughly applaud the idea of correcting the wing position. The artist should get it right.

Regards,

Richard.