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Here is my Snowflake Sampler.  It is available for sale from http://www.patternsonline.com/

This time, instead of making up the snowflakes as I stitched, I drew them on graph paper.  Since I wanted the snowflakes to be reproducible, it was much easier to graph them first and stitch them second.

The only thing I didn't design in advance was the bead placement.  It's much easier deciding where they go on the actual stitched piece instead of a pictoral representation.

One of the hardest things about designing your own sampler is deciding on colors.  I started with 2 doodles.  One on off-white linen in light blues and one on lavender with white and darker blue snowflakes.  It was a hard decision, but I finally decided to go with the off-white and light blues.  The result is low-contrast snowflakes.  I now think my model should have been in the higher contrast colors. 

Whenever I decide to go with the safer colors I end up deciding that the wilder colors would have been better.  Whenever I throw caution to the wind and start with the wilder colors, I often wish I had gone safer route.  But, every once in a while I love my color choice and wouldn't do it any other way.



Here is my wilder color scheme.  Actually, it's not all that wild.  I turned it into an ornament.  Which one do you like best?  If I stitch them again, I want to find a dark blue linen and stitch them all in whites.

Comments

  1. This snowflake sampler is beautiful. You are getting nearer and nearer to my comfort zone all the time, LOL. Actually I like both sets of snowflakes. Why not offer both options in the pattern?

    Hugs, Shari

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