The surface of the white gimp piece is finished. As a final touch I added glass beads along the French knot seam which sits just above the area of appliqued lace cloth. It's quite hard to identify the beads in the images...they weren't cooperating......you can just about make them out if you look closely at most of the images.
This piece has now been backed and stuffed. I'm in the process of hand stitching all the edges with buttonhole lace now. That won't get finished tonight unfortunately because I am going here at 4 pm today. Wish us luck...I'm a bit of a jinx. We tend to lose when I appear...yikes...if you are wondering who to cheer for that would be my team!