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Saturday 1 August 2015

My bumpy start...

Hello Xmas SALers,
 
Today I made a start on The Prairie Schooler ornament for August.
To remind you, this is what it will - hopefully - look like...
 
 
...when it it is finished.
 
The start could have been a little smoother, I must admit! Firstly I realised that most of my coloured aida wasn't 14-count, but 11-count! Big setback, which meant that I had to settle for either marbled light blue or light grey aida. In the end I chose the light grey. Secondly, I realised that when I ordered new threads last time, I forgot to order the missing threads for this project. So annoying! Still, I had five colours to start with so far, so this is where I got to today: 
 

I'm not entirely happy with today's progress... The white seems to fade a bit into the grey fabric, but I hope that when I can add the other colours (after I have found more money to order more threads) it will look better. Also I am thinking of using either white beads or metallics for the snowflakes which should make the white of the design stand out a bit more, don't you think??

But despite the hiccups of today, it was great fun to begin this Xmas project and I am soo much looking forward to doing this SAL with all of you!

Ho ho ho!

Annie

11 comments:

Melanie said...
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Melanie said...

You're off to a better start than me. I've only managed to get my bits together. Hopefully starting to stitch next week.
Well done. Love the choice of Santa. xxx

Jo said...

I would use metallics. Give it a lift

CJ said...

I am working on the same series. Lots of fun.

CJ

Kaisievic said...

This is a great start, Annie, you could maybe add some sparkly beads to the snow if it still is not showing up very well.

sew.darn.quilt said...

A great start!

Annie said...

Sparkly beads...hm...that sounds interesting! Are those Mill Hill beads?

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

The white will be surrounded by other colours so there will be more contrast as you stitch. I usually use B5200 rather than blanc for snow myself. It's a brighter white (sponsored by Persil?)

Kate said...

Wonderful start! It's looking great so far. I'm sure the white will really pop when you add the other colors.

Annie said...

That is the colour I have used as well:)

Bea said...

You're off to a great start and I'm sure once you have all the colours in everything will show up just fine.