Medieval Octagon part 2

Last weekend was very quiet at our house.  If it hadn't been so windy, we may have tried doing something outside; but it wasn't so we stayed inside for most of the weekend.  In between loads of laundry, I worked on Medieval Octagon.  Saturday, I finished the lower right blackwork.

Yesterday afternoon, I finished the lower left.

Here is everything through part 2

After I finished this, I put it away and pulled out Loneliness of Autumn but I couldn't settle down with it.  I only managed about 150-200 stitches in about 4 hours so I gave up and read a book for the rest of the evening.  I think I'll try again tonight but if I can't get into it, I'll probably either go back to Medieval Octagon or go through my WIPs and see if anything else catches my attention.

Blackwork update

Part 2 has stitched up fairly quickly.  I did make a fairly big change in it though.  Martina charted the upper right and the lower left parts in a couple different shades of gold.  I decided I wasn't fond of that as it made the piece look kind of choppy.  So I changed the blackwork in those two sections to the same color as the upper left and bottom right.  I think the result is more cohesive, IMHO.

upper left 2/21/16

upper right 2/23/16

overall 2/23/16

I'm happy.

What are you all stitching?

Part 1

Yay!  Here's part one of Chatelaine's Medieval Octagon.

I made a good start on part 2 and finished the upper left side yesterday.  

Onto the left

Last night, I finished the bottom 1/8th of Medieval Octagon.  Before I called it a night, I outlined the last 1/8 on the left.

Bottoms up!

I've been working on the bottom of Medieval Octagon this week so you get silly post titles.  :)

Halfway through part 1

Late last night, I finished the second side of part one of Medieval Octagon.

On my way into work this morning, I started debating with myself about continuing with this or pulling out Lonliness of Autumn. 

Side 2

I've been making steady progress on Medieval Octagon.  

2/2/16

2/4/16

I did make a couple of changes.  The vines up the side were supposed to be in WL Jade, I think.  I accidently did them in my conversion from WL Emerald.  I decided I liked my oops well enough I would leave it along and noted the change so all four sides will be the same.  I also changed those blue flowers.  They were supposed to be outlined in WL Emerald.  I wasn't excited about back stitching blue with green.  So I checked my stash and found a PTB in a dark blue.  I think it's PB08 which gave my flowers a bit of pop to go along with all the gold back stitching.  

Medieval Octagon Mandala

I started Chatelaine's Medieval Octagon after I finished Glory and Honor.  I'm stitching on 28 ct antique white Monaco.

I didn't get as far as I would have liked over the weekend, but I still made pretty good progress.  Tonight, I'm hoping to get those flowers and stems backstitched and start on the upper part of the triangle.  The oval motif comes in a later part.