Last night I picked up the goldfish to do a little tent stitching on his lilypads. Saturday I visited the counted thread place not that far from my house because they were having a sale. I needed a dark medium green for the lily pads and although they didn't have the right green in Splendor or Mandarin Floss, I was able to pick up a card of Rainbow Gallery's Grandeur. Grandeur is a silk perle and because both it and Splendor are from Rainbow Gallery, the colors are identical. You can sometimes get a silk floss and a silk perle in the same color for unusual and special effects on a design. I am not doing this here but you can. Just saying....
Anyway, I pulled out my green Grandeur, took three tent stitches and stopped. Remember how I was tent stitching this leaf with two plies of Mandarin floss in the olive green? The Grandeur was too fat! It made my tent stitches in dark green much higher and fatter than the olive green ones in Mandarin floss. Oops!
Today I'll hit up the crafts emporium with my card of Grandeur (which is about the size of a number 8 perle cotton) and see if I can find a skein of DMC in the right shade. If I had a brain in my head, I would have bought a card of Rainbow Gallery's Elegance, which is the size of number 12 perle and much thinner, and tried to match the tent stitches in Mandarin Floss to that.
But I am an idiot. Oh, well, live and learn!
By the way, I have a card of medium blue Grandeur that's also too fat for the water. Double idiot. LOL
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