A little more red -

 

 

At the bottom side borders - 

 

And the bottom border - 

 

And I thought I was done with the RED - 

 

 

Until I realized that I didn't outline the RED parts - 

 

In the bird at the bottom - 

 

Between the RED arcs and the BLUE teardrops - 

 

But - how do I outline those RED bits -

 

Without breaking thread on every single one of them? - 

 

Hmmm -

Remember the other day when I had a "DUH" moment - 

 

When I realized that any area can be outlined in either of TWO colors - 

 

The "inside" one or the "outside" one? - 

 

Well - here's a perfect example - 

 

Instead of outlining the RED arcs in RED - 

 

I outlined the BLUE bits on the "inside" of the arc - 

 

Same difference - 

 

And I solved the "breaking thread" problem - 

 

By "traveling" in the BLUE background to the next one -

 

Now I'm down to the last TWO colors - 

 

The GOLD/YELLOW and the GRAY - 

 

I'm going to do the GRAY next - 

 

The elephants and zebra heads - 

 

 

Then I'll have to roll it - 

 

To get to the rest of the elephant on this side - 

 

 

And the hippo on this side - 

 

 

I also decided to change to the cone thread - 

 

For both the top and bobbin - 

 

On the GOLD/YELLOW and GRAY - 

That might help with the tension problems - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -