Meredith's (small) Start

Hello! Well, I had a small start last night and today. After looking at all the beautiful pictures of this pattern on the designers page and seeing all of your amazing color choices I decided to go with just two colors. (The idea of converting this pattern to 5 colors from 2 was very overwhelming to me - I'm a whimp that way :-) I am using DMC 315 which is one of the designers suggested colors and 3727 which I just liked with it. These colors are a little bit different then the usual palette I would choose but my 6 year old daughter helped me pick them out and I am really drawn to them.

So, here's my small start.

I hope to get to work on her more tonight. Everyone's starts are super! Thanks Amy and Petra for organizing this SAL for us! It's so much fun to be a part of it!

Meredith

Melissa's Lady

Even though I know the SAL doesn't "officially" start until tomorrow, I went on and got started on my lady since I had a long weekend. She is such a fun stitch!


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I need to go back and frog a bit on her shoe. I clearly wasn't thinking and/or playing attention when I was stitching. I realized when I went to take the photo that I stitched her leg in the shoe color and not the flesh color. LOL

I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to stitch the small half medallion next to her or if I'm going to stitch the cat & mouse. After purchasing the matching Gentleman, I'm leaning more toward the cat & mouse now to have it coordinate better with the dog on the other design.

Melissa
http://www.thedailymel.com

Excited to get started!

Hello! I'm Meredith from NJ and I am excited to start this SAL tomorrow! Thank you all for sharing your wonderful ideas/color choices. I have a lot to do today to get ready for that first x tomorrow! I need to figure out what size fabric I need and cut it from a piece of 36 x 27 32 count Lambswool that I had in my stash. Then need to do my running stitch all around it... I am going with Moniques and some of your color way...but I'm a little concerned that the 945 and 3774 are blending into my fabric just a little too much. I think I'm going to hunt around in my DMC for some slightly darker colors for those. Oh, yeah, I also need to print the pattern!! :-)

So, excited to start this piece with all of you tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing everyone's pieces progress.

Meredith
http://www.merrystitching.blogspot.com/