I really appreciated all the input I received in the Comments when I asked Blog readers to try and find the problem with the background of the bra canvas. You guys found a problem I didn't know about--I never realized that some of the deer have longer front legs than others! (I'll fix that tonight before I continue the t-stitches around the deer.) For folks with dyslexia, the deer legs all look alike until someone points this out. I'm grateful for your sharp eyes. I suspect I made the mistake on one deer and didn't catch it, then looked at the long-legged deer and copied his stitching on his neighbors. The moral is to do your counting from your chart, not from the motifs you've already done.
However, this isn't the problem I know I have and I am quite pleased you didn't see it. The end vertical column of deer on the right hand side is stitched with a different thread and a slightly different color than all the other columns of deer.
The bulk of the leaping deer are stitched in Medici color #8505 which is tan. I had a full skein of this and thought it should be enough for the deer. I think it would have been except that I decided to use cross stitch instead of half cross stitch. Somehow the fact that I was going to use twice the amount of thread than I originally planned didn't register in what I laughingly refer to as my brain!
So I rummaged around in the stash and found a similar tan in Burmilana #3744. It is slightly more yellowish in hue but a good match. I did the right hand column deer in it using tent stitches instead of cross stitch except for the top partial deer which is in cross stitch with the top \ stitch done in my Medici to camouflage the fact that I am using a different color. The bottom / stitch is in my Burmilana.
You may be able to see the color difference in the third deer from the top in that right hand column. Working from the bottom up, I added the top \ stitch in Medici but the top half of the deer is just Burmilana in underlying / tent stitches.
Of course I could have posted an SOS here and on the ANG email list and someone would have scrounged up a skein of Medici 8505 for me, but there are other ways of coping when you run out of thread, especially when you are using cross stitches. It seemed a good idea to go another route here in case you find yourself in the same fix in the future.
When I get to the tap pants' background, I'll probably stitch all the deer in tent stitches and then randomly top some of those / stitches with Medici or with Burmilana. That will hide the thread change even more.
Since no one spotted the color differences and I can barely tell myself even knowing where to look, this workaround will do well.
Besides, isn't it fun to know that a canvas with a camouflage theme has camouflaged thread in the background? LOL
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2 comments:
Wow, I did not even go in that direction at all...I checked and my shop is out of that color.
The color difference is hard to see. Already Robin has found me more of the Medici if I want it. Maybe I'll buy it, maybe I won't!
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