Friday, July 28, 2017

Winnie the Pooh II July progress

Hello friends!  I managed about 1600 stitches on Winnie the Pooh this month.  Progress was quick because of large blocks of color in the sky.  It was fun to introduce some new colors (orange/gold) for the next tree.

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Now:



I had to pull some extra DMC since one of the new colors turned out to be a duplicate with a different symbol, for 869, which is used in the tree trunk on the left (and also some in the orange tree).  The Cyberstitchers Candamar - DMC conversion is wonky in places.  I checked the floss list from the kit; "medium dull brown" (869) doesn't sound like "medium dark gold".  The two colors from the kit floss were virtually identical and didn't fit either color description, to my eye.  Having a full DMC set comes in handy sometimes!  I decided DMC 420 would be a good sub for the medium dark gold.. it looked good next to the colors charted around it, yet still distinct, and also 420 isn't anywhere else in the conversion.
It's getting really hard to put this one away....

8 comments:

  1. I can see why you would have a hard time putting it away! It looks awesome!

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  2. Seems like now that you got your kit troubles figures out, you'rem aking really good headway on this :) Great work!

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    1. Thanks! There will likely be a few more subs required, but I don't mind, with the full rainbow of dmc available. Happy stitching!

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  3. I love watching your progress on this one, so I can also see why you would have a hard time putting it away. Beautiful progress!

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    1. Thanks! I really look forward to working on it each month. Happy stitching!

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  4. It is nice to be able to check what you need with a full set of DMC. Your piece is looking great!

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    1. Thanks! I have it in stitchbows in 2 binders and it's very handy. Happy stitching!

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