Winter Kaleidoscope - Modern Folk Embroidery. Finish #2 for 2025. Oh, that seems really sad. Started it in Sept of 2024, finished April 2025. The goal was two pages a month, 20 pages total. I finished it in 8 months, not ten months. Do I wanna stitch it again? Nope. It is just over 13.5 inches square. I used EXACTLY 11 skeins of dmc 498. On 28 count antique white jobelan, one over one. I do mean I used right down to the last thread of the skein. I was totally convinced I was gonna need to pull another length from a next skein, which would have been fine. I still had 5 skeins. But as it slowly filled in, I got down to the last eight stitches, and I had inches to spare. Not a lot of inches, but it was fine. I never had an huge counting mistakes that I had to pull out several threads. I had a few where I had to pull out maybe a couple dozen stitches. Nothing that would make me say, oh, just get 11 skeins, you'll be fine. Nope. In all my years of stitching, I can't remember it being that exact. It's lovely. Why dmc 498 ? It was just a red that some store had a bunch in the same dyelot, so I bought them, and stashed them. It was a nice stitch. Originally I liked the deer on this pattern. He had a few others with that same deer that I have considered buying over the years. But stitching this - funny thing was - the deer are what I hated stitching. So those other patterns are not gonna suddenly show up in my stash. They aren't hard to stitch deer, or fussy, but after the first deer, I was over the idea of liking to stitch the deer. Or doing more deer. It's a lovely pattern. I have stitched a few of his other designs. It was a nice one to finish and be able to move onto something else.
