Stargazer @ 52 hours

Please don't mind my wrinkles... Here's what my Stargazer looks like at 52 hours worth of stitching. I'm hoping the brighter blues that I have yet to stitch will help the dress pop out of the dark fabric like I was hoping. I feel disappointed at how the darkest color in her dress is matching so closely to the dark fabric. I hope she doesn't completely disappear! I'm concerned about how her hair will blend into the dark fabric as well. Oh well! There's no going back now!

Sparklies

Googling cross stitch stuff paid off big time for me... I discovered Sparklies! It's a lady in the UK who hand dyes fabrics and they are beautiful! I had chosen a new Mirabilia design that I want to stitch and so I chose this fabric to work it on. I was so giddy with excitement the day I chose it out and the day it finally arrived in the mail. It is AWESOME. It's called "Pitch" and I chose it in opalescent (which means it SPARKLES!). It's gorgeous and I began stitching on it yesterday. 

This material is going to make this piece simply breathtaking, in my opinion. The design I'm stitching is called Stargazer. It's of a woman in a beautiful flowing dress, hands to her chest, eyes lifted heavenward towards a sky full of stars. It's full of beadwork that will be in her dress and the stars in the sky. I can't even begin to describe to you how excited I am to be working on this! I'll post pictures of my progress as it's coming along.