Phoenix & Tree Kit

Phoenix and Tree

Materials were high quality, a delight to work with and beautifully packaged. This was my first crewel work and between the provided instructions and a few online videos it was a successful, pleasant process. I did find that the colors provided were darker with more greens than the provided photo and online. There was barely any blue. Not sure I would have purchased this specific design had I known. For the phoenix I substituted colors to lighten up the piece. I also struggled to keep fabric tension in a hoop as I progressed with the work with the thickness of some of my stitched areas. I used the suggested method of cling film. May proceed with a slate frame in the future.

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Part of a trio of kits that I am working through. Just a lovely set.