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Krenik   /scowl

Sometimes it may be better to go with your initial, gut instinct. I left Lily for a little bit to start on THB Once Upon a Time.

I'm not sure if it was a coincidence or not that I was stitching with Krenik on the fairy at that time. I don't mind the Krenik in the flowers. There isn't a lot of it. I like the effect.

On the fairy's body though, I didn't like the effect. But did I let that stop me? Nope, sure didn't. I did her forearm, then I did her upper arm and then it was time to stitch her face, and I balked. Hmmm. Really not so sure that looks good the little voice in the back of my mind whispered.

Sometimes the little voice isn't right, like when it told me to buy the Lily of the Valley pattern WITH the background because this one, without the BG isn't as pretty. Or when it told me that the stitching was looking stretched and I might be creating a mutant Fern Gully x Avatar fairy.

This time however, it was right. So I got to cut out all the tiny, delicate stitching of Krenik on her body. And I've replaced it with DMC B5200 "white" I'm still not sure about what THAT looks like. The white is a little stark, but at least it is the same thickness as the other stitches instead of looking "puffy."

This pattern likely would have looked a little better on a pale green fabric instead of white/off white. But I'm not starting over!

Close up, fairy w/ B5200 10-May-2015

 I'll finish the rest of the piece and hopefully that will dirty the white up enough that I do like the look of it. I'm thinking next time I might go with blending filament instead, I think it's thinner.

WiP 10-May-2015

On the up side though, I picked up some more patterns that I absolutely LOVE during the HAED Mothers Day sale when patterns were 45% off!

I also grabbed a Julie Fain pattern for my sister. Then I printed it, proceeded to kit it for her, got her a QSnap frame and took everything over so she could start while she was still excited about the idea! The madness that is HAED cross stitch loves company! Mwhahaha!!

Sister's stitching!