Hello!
You'll never guess! Whats that? Oh...well okay then, maybe you will.
After Sundays post about my lack of finding something I wanted to stitch I set about looking for a pattern. I opened exactly one drawer and was reminded of a kit I won back in September in a blog giveaway.
I received the pattern,, the black aida and the threads. When I saw it I decided straight away that I wanted to stitch it especially since I had seen a lot of samplers of late and was just jumping on the band wagon.
I did not read the instructions or look closely, I thought the thread was variegated and it turned out it was two shades, dark and light. I decided to swap the thread as I had some variegated threads - you see I never realised my error until I had started! - and I had a choice of six colours. I believe that I have an orange soul and opted for a peachy orange/goldy yellow shade. DMC 4128.
As you may know with a variegated thread you need to do complete stitches before moving onto the next stitch, as opposed to half stitches on a row and back again, I also needed to make sure that when I rethreaded that I made sure that the shading matched where I had finished and finally I had to consider the stroke of the letter and follow that as opposed to all one block.
This is a close up of how it should have looked minus my tweaks...
If I had realised it was two colours then I would have a lot more done than I do! I am happy with my progress so far as I started on Sunday evening and have been stitching through my lunch break on Tuesday and a couple of hours on Monday. This is where I am up to so far...
Sorry for the blurry-ness - So that is letter B and then O, P and Q. I am currently trying to decide what colour to do the line text that is on it, what do you think? Dark orange, light yellow or another colour altogether?
You'll never guess! Whats that? Oh...well okay then, maybe you will.
After Sundays post about my lack of finding something I wanted to stitch I set about looking for a pattern. I opened exactly one drawer and was reminded of a kit I won back in September in a blog giveaway.
I received the pattern,, the black aida and the threads. When I saw it I decided straight away that I wanted to stitch it especially since I had seen a lot of samplers of late and was just jumping on the band wagon.
I did not read the instructions or look closely, I thought the thread was variegated and it turned out it was two shades, dark and light. I decided to swap the thread as I had some variegated threads - you see I never realised my error until I had started! - and I had a choice of six colours. I believe that I have an orange soul and opted for a peachy orange/goldy yellow shade. DMC 4128.
As you may know with a variegated thread you need to do complete stitches before moving onto the next stitch, as opposed to half stitches on a row and back again, I also needed to make sure that when I rethreaded that I made sure that the shading matched where I had finished and finally I had to consider the stroke of the letter and follow that as opposed to all one block.
This is a close up of how it should have looked minus my tweaks...
If I had realised it was two colours then I would have a lot more done than I do! I am happy with my progress so far as I started on Sunday evening and have been stitching through my lunch break on Tuesday and a couple of hours on Monday. This is where I am up to so far...
Sorry for the blurry-ness - So that is letter B and then O, P and Q. I am currently trying to decide what colour to do the line text that is on it, what do you think? Dark orange, light yellow or another colour altogether?
super sweet x
ReplyDeleteThanks cucki :) Any suggestions on colour?
DeleteVariegated thread can be a pain, but it looks so amazing when it's done and you've got a great progress goin on there sis! How are you liking the black material? Do you have any trouble seeing the holes? Or do you use a light box? I'm having a bitch of a time with my Disney on navy.
ReplyDeleteI have to hold it up to see a bit and I use touch too. thanks, I have Bern enjoying it but I postponed other stuff like writing & had to do a switcheroo. Will stitch later & would live to know what colour you think?
DeleteI really like the varigated thread. I think I would make the line of text a solid dark or mid-tone orange. This is going to be so pretty when finished. Can't wait to see it done .... no pressure ....
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about two colours after a while, maybe the actual colour that came with it (the darker shade is a rusty colour) and a dark green?
DeleteI am liking the variegated effect, and I love orange :D Thanks
I think I would go with a match with the color in the variegation that you like the best. But you know me, all matchy matchy!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I just posted another update and you can sort of see better...I am thinking green because there are stems but not sure yet...matchy matchy sounds good also!
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