Darkest Before Dawn in progress.

This panel piece's 73-row appliqué is now done, except for its edging – a final row of beads I'll add to its contour to close it off.

This beaded edge won't be anything fancy, just an extra row of matte-blacks.

I could realistically skip this part... but I'd rather the Pellon/felt backing be hidden. (For now, it's Sharpie’d over in black, but still visible from the side.)

Once that's done, I'll stitch this appliqué to its larger canvas backing; after that, I'll be mounting the appliqué-bearing canvas to the wood panel featured here, in the background.

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Incidentally, it is FANTASTICALLY WEIRD to walk around my apartment with this thing and put it down in random places... on the edge of my bathroom sink, e.g.

Like, I don't remember the last time I got to sit on my couch with a portal to a different dimension, both of us just shootin' the breeze over a nice hot cuppa coffee.

It's hard to describe.

In a word: I might as well be dreaming.