Life INSIDE the washing basket - a question of perspective

Finally got part 1 finished tonight, with the back-stitch all completed.  Although it looked quite complex on the pattern, it felt most soothing to be doing it.

And this meant I could finally make a start on the second part.  Here's the resulting work so far:

You'll see from our blog posts that my BFF and I have approached this second stitch (as we did on the first one) from a totally different perspective.  I started from the centre, followed some long lines outwards and then am working around the outside from those long lines as a 'jumping off point'.  Having started this way, I found it easier to see individual blocks of colour, which I'd worried about due to the large amount of back-stitch in the centre which was quite distracting.  So maybe the perspective helped.


And here's a final new perspective - I often find it easier to see how I'm going on a project by looking at the state of the pattern - so here they are so far:

Feels like a great positive perspective which is helping at this mad old time of lockdown.