Holmsey Hare's Winter Wonderland by Stitchers Anon is finished:
This is stitched on Chesapeake Bay 32 count linen by Under the Sea Fabrics, mostly with the charted colors. This was a Stitch Maynia 2017 start, so yay, I knocked out another one of them.
I made a lot of changes.
There are also some stitcher errors that I just left because I didn't mind them.
I'm going to take care of my small for this month, and then work on finishing parts five & six of Faby Reilly's Lizzie Stitching Wallet SAL. That is, if overtime doesn't kick in this week. Fingers crossed.
I made a lot of changes.
- Firstly, there were a couple of errors in the chart - one of the green sprigs in the upper left corner was charted slightly wrong, so I fixed that. And then, the snowflake border on the right started with the same snowflake as the top border ends with, instead of the opposite flake; and the bottom border had the same style snowflake for flake #5 & #6. So I frogged most of the right side border to fix that, and adjusted the bottom border. This way, the snowflake border has an every-other-snowflake pattern all around. (If that makes sense.)
- Then, for part three, I wanted the snow to appear in drifts similar to part one, so I altered the horizon line.
- I swapped out 834 (a brassy gold) for 739 for the hedgehog's face/feet and 746 for the hare's chest/tail.
- I felt like the two little trees under the donkey's chin looked crowded then, so I changed the style of them.
- I also wanted the bird to be a dark-eyed junco - my favorite local winter bird - instead of another European robin.
- The right-most tree in part three looked a bit odd, so I fussed with that.
- Then, probably because of the junco, the colors in part three seemed too muted compared to the colors in the other parts, so I added some holly berries to the center tree and had the junco collecting them on its tree stump.
- And THEN I felt like the yellow star in part one looked out of place, being the only big bright yellow spot in the whole pattern, so I frogged it and stitched a snowflake in its place. I liked how that balanced out the color palette overall; and I like that the animals in part one are now looking up at the snowfall, rather than at the star - makes it feel more wintry rather than Christmasy to me.
There are also some stitcher errors that I just left because I didn't mind them.
I'm going to take care of my small for this month, and then work on finishing parts five & six of Faby Reilly's Lizzie Stitching Wallet SAL. That is, if overtime doesn't kick in this week. Fingers crossed.
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