Not that I haven't been enjoying and appreciating the "Wisdom Sampler," but I got this far and found myself unable to stop wishing that I'd started "Laurence Briquet" instead. I've set things temporarily aside before -- I mean, started another project simultaneously in another frame or hoop (or set of needles ...) -- but I don't think I've ever actually taken one off the frame for another, partly because it's just a bother with having to baste a piece of linen to the stretcher bars. But there it is -- I took "Wisdom" off and put in "Laurence" instead.
And things were going pretty well, even though I realized that the threads for the water were considerably lighter than in the image, and though I usually like that faded look, I decided to pick it out and switch the three for three of my favorite Antique Blues. I was far enough along with the water that I moved over to one of the "boulders," but after a bit of stitching thought, "wait a minute -- this second brown is supposed to be shading ...." and it is indeed lighter than the main brown, instead of darker. After rather laboriously checking the Soie d'Alger colors with the DMC (by way of various online needlework shops and color charts), I suspect now that nobody at Reflets de Soie actually stitched this in the DMC conversion that is supplied with the chart, but only did the Soie d'Alger original version, as a number of other colors are noticeably different. (As much as I would enjoy, I'm sure, stitching this in luxurious silks instead of everyday cotton floss, there are thirty-nine colors in this chart! Thirty-nine! That's a lot of silk.) So it looks like I'll be paying for my fickleness by having to figure out which DMC thread will best match the image on the chart. Sigh.
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