Last Travelling Book Piece stage two.

Next to be added was the large lace motif on the left in a rich deep red…

…which I stitched down with a variety of decorative stitches in contrasting green and complementary red.

Then a gold chain stitch spiral to match the paisleys already on this piece of sari fabric and fill in the middle space.

Next ribbon roses in an unusual tubular thread (Caron I think) with fly stitch leaves.

I decided to ring the changes and give the next spotty bird stars on his spots.

And with a start made on the spotty bird at the bottom, I felt it was going well.

Only three blocks to finish and I’d already made a start on the experimental beaded fly stitch leaves for one of them so I was feeling really positive. Parting with this one was going to be probably the hardest of the lot!