Moon Garden is one of the early Blackbird Design charts I purchased soon after discovering these designers. While I sorta liked the colors and kitted it up, I could not really get started on it. Then Jane Douglas posted her stitched piece using totally different colors. I LOVED the look of it and decided to use at least some of her colors when stitching mine. Information on both color schemes can be found here.
Moon Garden by Blackbird Designs chart
Since there were no specialty stitches and only the date was over one, I selected 16ct Highland Aida by Picture This Plus as the fabric and threads from the Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe.
Moon Garden Fabric, threads and chart
Moon Garden Progress 12.21.2016
Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe Threads except where noted.
- Black Watch Plaid
- Iris Leaves
- P27
- Dried Peaches
- Gentle Arts Pineapple Sherbet
- Carrie’s Creation Soot
I used Iris Leaves for the alphabet with the exception of my initials, for which I used Black Watch Plaid. For the words Moon Garden, I will be using P27. The birds are stitched with Soot and P27 so they look more like Red Winged Blackbirds. The bird’s eyes were stitched with VM Sunflowers.
Started stitching December 18, 2016
Finished stitching: December 28, 2016
Moon Garden Finished
Moon Garden Bottom
Moon Garden Top
UPDATE DECEMBER 2017: Now that my sister has received her package and unwrapped it, I can show the finished piece. I decided to finish this one as a bellpull.
Moon Garden finished as a bellpull
Lovely progress so far <3