Mini Magical Mystery SAL 15 - Part 1

Welcome back for day one of the fifteenth round of mystery stitching! This is the first mystery that will not at some point give a part number that has the same number as the mystery number (so say part 7 of Mini Magical Mystery 7) - yes we've done that many! Which means I also need to start thinking about a second end pattern as I want to have a different end on my chain from the first one. If you wish to see/remind yourself what the first chain looks like you can see it here.

As always for the first post I'm showing the fabric and thread I'm using this time. I don't like to spoil the surprise of opening the pattern so my photos are of the day before, or in this case of the fabric and thread. I'm using DMC 606. The fabric is Jodyri Designs Nevermore 18ct Aida that I also used for the eleventh and thirteenth Mini Magical Mystery SALs. It's a bit scrunched up from being in the hoop for the other Mini Magical Mystery SALs - the bit you see here isn't going to be stitched on yet so I didn't iron it - it'll get scrunched up again when I put it in the hoop so I didn't think it made sense to do so. The beads are TOHO TR-11-25 - Silver-lined Lt. Siam Ruby.

Here you can see my backstitched outlines next to the Mini Magical Mystery SAL 11 and Mini Magical Mystery SAL 13 - they are eight stitches apart, my usual distance between things (the actual stitched area is then ten stitches apart which is what I advise as a bare minimum). I think you can see why I haven't cut the either one out yet.

In case you are wondering why I do the backstitched outlines first: it helps me with placement of the stitches (as long as I remember to skip the first stitch next to the outline) and it means that I don't have to do it afterwards as it's not my favourite part of stitching.

You can find today's pattern here. Please count carefully - you don't want to make a mistake today.

Have fun and I'll be back tomorrow with the next part of the Mini Magical Mystery SAL 15 and the Blackwork SAL!