Frances B's Turning Point

I know it's been a while since I've done an official stitching update, but that doesn't mean I haven't been hard at it! It just means the stitching I have been so diligently working on has been, well....hard.  Yes, that means hard at work on Frances Burwell, she of the endless outlined satin stitch pansies and nerve-fraying double running stitch thingamajigs.  But at last, I've reached a turning point!  Here's the last stop on the crazy train final flowering vine band in her growing expanse:

I feel like I've slayed the beast!  So please pardon me while I gloat....here's another pic of that same row, with the middle insanity pansy band stacked over it. 

Now, time for some honest answers here.  I think I got overexcited while ironing her for these pictures and made the dark red on the top right yellow flower bleed.  Can you tell?  It's not bad, but to my eye, that linen looks a little pinker than it should around the dark red threads.

Just to make it an even threesome of photos, here's how she looks from the top to the point I'm at now:

So from here on out, I'm hoping Frances will be agreeable and let me have my long deserved finish with her sometime soon.  There's still a lot of stitching to do - a few more blackwork bands, a whole gaggle of funky birds in bright colors and a big old brick house - but nothing I can't power through.  I've reached the turning point and am moving into more a comfortable friendship with her!