I'm happy with my revision of the colors for "Margaret", wh. are a bit darker but look much more like the photo than what I had in my hands before. Now I'm a bit bemused by the satin-stitch blocks on the basket, as the line across the middle of the first diamond, where the two areas of satin stitch meet, looks rather peculiarly like teeth! I'm not sure if that's my technique -- though I'm usually (surprisingly) not a tight stitcher -- or just the nature of the beast, as it were. I might re-work one doing an "encroaching" satin, and see if that is an improvement. The photo of the finished sampler is too blurry to get much of an idea of how it's supposed to look, unfortunately -- but, again, I'm liking the colors better now!
(I picked out almost everything I'd done, yes, except for the dark-green diagonals on the base of the basket, which color is the same as in the original conversion. Needs must. After that, it seemed safer, orientation-wise, to start there and work upwards, rather than in the actual center! There is a beading needle near the crease in the fabric, marking where page 5 stops and the adjacent page 8 begins -- I like the beading needle over a basting thread as I can shift up as I go, and don't have to worry about contrasting fibers from the basting thread sticking around.)
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