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I just found this board not long ago, so I have been peeking in.

I'm working on Summer Queen as well - nearly finished! She's the last of the four Queens, although I'm probably going to do Royal Holiday as well.

This is my currently-headless Summer Queen: http://herboudoir.blogspo...r-queen-shes-coming.html

I usually end up doing the clothing then the body parts - I really couldn't tell you why LOL It always just seems that way.

And here are the other ladies: http://herboudoir.blogspot.com/2009/01/mirabilia-queens-back-in-1999-mirabilia.html

I like your lavender interpretation of Winter Queen. I am planning on doing Rose of Sharon in shades of purple (or maybe a rose red - whatever - I have time to decide!) sometime in the future - between Spring Queen and Fairy Idyll, enough with the yellow.

I haven't decided how I'm going to have them framed just yet, but I think I'll be hanging one downstairs in the entry way, and the other three upstairs in my ~ahem~ boudoir. The downstairs one will be rotated with the seasons. I do know that I want them all to coordinate - matching frames, exact size, coordinating mats if decide to have them matted, so that if they end up getting hung up in a grouping, they'll work well together. I'm not sure how Royal Christmas will work into all of that, but we'll see :-)

You and me both, Paula LOL.

In 1999, I completed The Dreamer and Spring Queen, and got a start on Autumn Queen. I didn't stitch very much for several years until last year. In 2008, I finished Autumn Queen, and I completed Mermaids of the Deep Blue and Winter Queen. Thus far in 2009, I completed Fairy Idyll. In progress, I currently have: Summer Queen (almost done!), Midsummer Night's Fairy, and Crystal Symphony. I have Sleeping Beauty kitted up and ready to go, on a PtP fathom lugana that I can trim enough off to use for Mermaid of Atlantis since she's quite narrow. I think shortly behind them, I will be working on Royal Holiday and Mermaid of Atlantis (Royal Holiday will work on a piece of cream linen leftover from Fairy Idyll), and I'm looking at patterns and fabrics for what would come after them (strong contenders include Rose of Sharon, Garden Verses, Rose Celebration....) I've actually figured out that I really like Garden Verses and Rose Celebration on apricot belfast linen - if I buy a full yard, there will be enough to do both on one piece (Rose is long and narrow, Garden is more square)....and I have another piece of amsterdam blue linen so what mermaid would work well on there....and Midsummer is going to need another fairy friend - perhaps Titania or Woodland? And I adore Venitian Opulence, so she needs to be worked in somewhere....

And on and on.... LOL

The funny thing is that if I did nothing but work on projects that are already in progress, I'd be keeping busy for at least the next year. And yet I can't seem to help shopping around, looking at fabrics, thinking "what's next?" LOL Argh!