Greetings of the Angelic kind.............

I love doing pieces for the Angel Quilt Project, it gives me such a wonderful feeling and I like the idea that there's a bit of my needlework somewhere out there that brings a little joy or comfort to someone. The reason for this ramble is that I was taking a tour of my patterns, bits and bobs and was actually looking for a piece to do a February SAL with some stitchers on the Pals Delights BB. Now I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did find a piece from the Artecy site that is called Angelic Greetings. It's an effect that is like silhouette/blackwork but all done in whole cross stitches. Then I remember seeing a beautiful Silkweaver piece in my stash called Elegance which is shades of purple mottling with white and cream that has a "late evening" kind of feel to it. For my mind, the two were just made for each other. So I have started it and have done about 2 days stitching on it. As it appears on the fabric, my gut just tells me that this is 'so right'. Right now I have about a 6 hours stitching time on it and this is how it looks:


This is a 28 count Jobelan being stitched 2 over 2. The pattern is 17 pages plus 2 pages with additional information. The original was stitched using black, but I've opted to use DMC #3740 to compliment the purple without being too stark. There are no 'repeat sections' between the pages, so counting requires a little more concentration for me, but I am thoroughly enjoying it.
I just love the effect I am seeing. Well, this will be it for now until March as I need to get to work on my other angel.