Sweet Dreams Baby Shower Gift Completed!

Remember the gift I was planning for a baby shower? Well...things didn't go as I planned in that earlier post. I changed my color scheme as soon as I started playing around with the fabric and floss!

Instead of the variegated browns, oranges and minty greens...I went with these beautiful colors.  They are less of a contrast with the blue and white checked fabric so I think they give the whole picture a more sleepy, dreamy feeling. 

I did use quite a few of the new stitches I have learned.  Here you can see the threaded running stitch in light and dark yellow for the moon

and the double knot stitch for the moon's hat:

I used back stitch for the lettering, the moon's facial features and the stars, french knots for the tiny accent dots and chain stitch to outline the clouds:

When I finished the stitching, I backed the fabric with a piece of similar weight white fabric, wrapped them both around a piece of cardboard and put them in the shadowbox frame:

Then I put the back on the frame and it was ready to go!

I am really happy with the way it turned out. Here are the floss colors I used with thier corresponding dmc numbers: