Updating a pattern

I know, traditional Quaker cross-stitch would have been one color, maybe two, I’m adapting a new pattern to multi color. Unfortunately I couldn’t load this into pattern keeper, but photocopies work very well.

The original pattern offered 4 colors, all shades of the same color.

I’ve just started, using all kinds of color.

Lots of color! Coming from a quilting background, I am trying to repeat colors across the whole piece. Right now you can see a riot of colors, but repetition is already happening.

In the original, this was two colors, one for the border, one for the interior. I even broke the flowers up.

Here I tried to show some restraint. only two colors for the border and two for the interior. The only ‘new’ color here is the dark teal, the others all appear elsewhere in the work.

My best friend is moving to AZ. I am very sad. Happy for her, she will be near her grandkids, but yes I’m sad. So she gave me a bunch of fabrics, this time batiks. I made an new project bag for this one, because very soon in about 10 days, the April section of the SAL will arrive and this will be shelved for a while.

Used two different fabrics. Btw, these are old, very old, how do I know? Because there is a difference between the front and the back of these batiks. The dye didn’t saturate the back as much.

For the first time in over a year we ate indoors in a restaurant in LA (we have eaten indoors elsewhere in CA and NV) not only that, the waitress gave us plastic straws with our water without us asking!! This recall Newsom is having its affects.