Heathwitch’s Stitchcraft

[finish] Bloom

The other finish of the weekend (started on Saturday night and finished on Sunday morning) was another Lizzie*Kate design (are you sensing a theme here, yet?) — one the freebies, “Bloom”.

This time, for a change from stitching on evenweave, I worked this piece on 16ct aida, in a lovely celadon colour. While I did use some of the thread colours as suggested by the chart, I did some other substitution — like adding DMC Colour Variations 4110 for the border, and experimenting with DMC’s Light Effects thread (colour E316) for the text.

Excusing the wonkiness of the scan — I couldn’t get it straight for some reason — here’s how it came out, after 6 hours of stitching:

While I liked working with the Light Effects, and think it came out pretty well, I do have one thing to say about it. Thread Heaven. Seriously. I would not have coped with the metallic thread without it — I had a lot less tangles and problems when I remembered to use used Thread Heaven. :-)

…And for those who’ve wondered what the back of my work looks like, here you go. As you can tell, I like to keep things as tidy as possible:

I’ve since started another Lizzie*Kate chart, and hopefully should have a scan of it as a WIP soon. Other than that, a package of some black 28ct evenweave arrived, so that’s another project to start… ;-)

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