Costume Preview

Currently I'm working on embroidery for the costume, which is something I've never done before. I am doing it all by hand which takes a while but I can listen to music or watch TV while I do it, so that's great.
My embroidery is definitely the stuff of beginners (so don't look too closely at my pictures!) but having done it I am ashamed I put if off for so long. I was so worried about messing things up that I didn't start until now when I have so little time left and now that I've got the hang of it I'd really like to do more for the costume, I just lack the time.

Anyway, I wanted a snowflake pattern but not a typical snowflake, something more stylized and I found the perfect match with this Celtic snowflake which I found on Urban Threads. Really I can't plug this website enough. It's fun, it's fresh and it's definitely not your grandmother's embroidery. Go check it out if you're interested in embroidery and want something a little different.

Okay, here's the pattern I got:

And here is my embroidery of it:

It looks darker in the pictures but it's white embroidery floss on white polyester shantung using a simple backstitch. I thought white on white might be hard but turns out it hides my uneven stitches fairly well when it's off the hoop. However, because it's white on white it has a tendency in certain lights to look like wrinkles in the fabric (or that could be my beginner embroidery skills) and I wonder if maybe I should have done silver on white instead. Oh well, no going back now.