08-24-2024

A: mineral heather
B: clematis heather
C: bouquet heather
D: brass heather
E: bare
F: light blue tonal
G: pumice twist
H: opal heather
I: whirlpool
J: thicket
K: eclipse
L: hemlock

08-26-2024

Doing the steeked version. Don’t have the given needle size, so going with my closest.

09-19-2024

First band done! Needle felted the steek (first time doing that). Am going to block bands #1 and #2 so that attaching bands #3mand #4 will be easier.

The colors turned dark when I soaked it, and, looking at it while pinned, I am not sure about my colors. So I am going to wait for it to dry to decide whether to carry on or start over with color modification. Groundhog67 made a great version with only three colors: a single bg color and two FG colors, one for A and another for all the rest fg.

09-20-2024

Doing a second band one with this color scheme:

A: mineral heather
B: clematis heather
C: bouquet heather
D: brass heather
E: bare
F: bare
G: light blue tonal (but pumice for body)
H: light blue tonal
I: whirlpool
J: opal heather (but thicket or mineral for ribbing)
K: hemlock
L: thicket and eclipse

09-22-2024

New color scheme so much better.

Needle-felting the steek is so much fun!

11-21-2024

On to the borders!

11-26-2024

Just the cuffs to do. For the large border (neck to waist to neck), I bound off in rib. Toooooo long for the tubular bind-off.