Tiny Gift and Trial and Error

First a small gift for Seamus for Valentines Day's (which is also our anniversary, approximately, makes gift-giving easier!) It's the symbol for Chapter of Rose Croix in the Scottish Rite of Masonry, which he has recently joined. It's truly a tiny gift, only about 1 3/4" diameter. Done in chain stitch with sewing thread. I'll probably go back and fill in the little white bit peeking through on the rose, I didn't notice it until looking at the picture.
I recently de-plied a whole ton of white three-ply rug/needlepoint yarn (the type pre-cut into yard-long lengths) and wound them up on cardboard. I really wanted to knit my under-horn head covering with them, but I was having some problems with the sturdyness of it if I just held two strands together to join.
So right now I'm knitting a mock up in some frogged sweater yarn (a super soft wool/cashmere blend, I really want a hat made out of it for myself) and debating whether to just make it in this yarn, or re-try it in the salvaged yarn. Not certain yet, though I love the variation in the de-plied yarn. Thoughts?

Annnnnd Done

So I swallowed my fear of color a bit and finished the other half of the embroidery on the horns in teal, then sewed up the other sides. I don't have a head form right now, so you get treated to my tired head modeling it. The balaclava/ski mask I'm wearing under it is not what will be used in the end, just giving you an idea about how the piece will look over one. And without it, you could barely see the horns against my dark hair.
I am particularly pleased with how they look from the back--that I'd really not been able to see as I was working on it.

Horns are Coming Together

In the most literal sense--I joined them at their fronts.
So the right sides are totally done. Just have to be joined at the back when I get the insides finished. And here's where I'm having a little bit of an issue.
I couldn't quite decide on the colors--either coral-orange-yellow or coral-orange-teal. I think the teal works better with the colors I was using for the vest pockets, but I just don't know if it's too weirdly 'rainbowy'
Yellow.
Teal. Thoughts? The whole thing with this character is much smaller areas of color, but with very bright, cheerful colors. It just feels weird, after having such controlled colors for the other characters--Red for Leoh, pink/peach for Lirienne.
Close up of the embroidery, which is just multiple rows of feather buttonhole stitch sorta "woven" into each other. Really happy with the texture of the stitch, it gives it a little bit of a ridge, echoing the corduroy.

Horns in Progress

The head piece is progressing!
One half has both the corduroy and the metallic threads couched down, it just needs some lining and finishing. The other I'm just starting to lay down the metallic threads.
It is very hard to get a decent picture of the metallic effect, but I'm really happy with it. Because of the raised nature of the corduroy, depending on the angle, the metallic threads appear and disappear.
Annnd because of the snow, it's been completely dead at work, so I have some time again to draw. I was thinking a bit about what to do with that strange lining tunic from I. Goldburg, and I wanted to sketch out with these horns plus the knitted under-helmet.