OCF – ONL 131

This design is a companion piece to the large Tahiti Mandala.

There was quite some stuff left over from Tahiti main design – and I dabbled around with it, which lead to a dream-like design (as I find) of a Moonrise at some South Seas shore.

A Vahine is dancing to some music at the beach, Palm Tree silhouettes are visible against the night skies. The first stars are visible and twinkle (yes, crystals!) and in the foreground you can see some of the gorgeous shells washed up to the sands. In one half that girl has even collected a few wonderfully shimmering Pearls (sew on real ones or use the Special Stitches…) The tropical flowers spend their perfumes, darkened by the nightfall.

Few silks only, hardly any beads, a handful of crystals and the rest DMC and your work will make this design to a dream on the wall….Backstitching of the main outlines will be done with gold metallic thread to add some golden Moonlight

You see a silhouette of a dancing Vahine in traditional attire against the sky filled with sunset colors. Framed by gently bent palm tree silhouettes an assortment of shells and flowers frame the piece and give a tropical feeling. Besides other interesting threads you will use “glow-in-the-dark” braid for a night-beaming effect of stars ….beads and sparklies help to give glitter to the night piece. I recommend a dark blue fabric to get the most of this particular mood…

Size: The mere stitch count of the design is 166 x 226 stitches.

Recommended Fabric: 14/28 or 16/32ct … Anything dark will be pretty – black, blue, teal….

Materials: You can check the material list here.