My present to myself for US Mother’s Day
Snow White by Bella Filipina. Stitched with DMC, Petite Treasure Braid and move 700 various beads. Unlike most Nora Corbett patterns – there was little block stitching in this pattern Add to that – the pattern and written recommendations didn’t always match, especially with the vines. I wound up substituting a significant number of green seed beads for random PTB green stitches. I like how she looks, but it may be a while before I tackle either Alice or Jasmine (the other two patterns in the series).
Compared to that – finishing this month’s dragon was easy –
and I agree with everyone who mentioned that they think of him as needing to be red – related to blood, fire, life, and sacrifice rather than blue. But hey – not my mythology. Usual decent reference here…
That’s a wonderful dragon!
And way way better than the statue of that name in San Jose. The sculptor gave a mini version to a member of the then-city council, she loved it, she talked the city into commissioning a large version of it for a park, they agreed.
And then the new council royally ticked off the sculptor.
Scott Herhold wrote a column about it. Basically, the mini was copper turned to turquoise. The new big one in the park? He painted it black. It looks like what the dragon left behind. This is said to have been deliberate, but the sculptor’s gone now so you can’t ask him.
Red, blue, purple – or any metal color make sense. But I am surprised that the city council hasn’t either painted it or removed it!