Random Mutterings

Very little doing on the stitching front today:

Before work, I started Dragon Dreams' Dragon of the Winter Moon.  Once at work, I used the copier to enlarge the chart.  It is difficult to read since it is printed on the grey-green card stock Jennifer Aiken-Smith had used for a while as a deterrent to copyright violation.  I also plan to spend a little time working on the piece at lunchtime.

I will place an order with 123stitch, my go-to online needlework shop, for the remaining supplies for The Silversmith Shop and The Dragon of the Winter Moon.  To get a bit of a head start, I also ordered the supplies for the companion piece to The Dragon of the Winter Moon,  The Dragon of the Summer Sky, which will be my next new start.

I double checked my Belle Soie and Glorianna stash to see if I could find a suitable substitute for the Thread Gatherer Papyrus Leaf needed for The Silversnith Shop.  No such luck.  It's a shame that I couldn't find something in quite that shade of peacock blue, especially when you consider how very extensive my fiber stash really is!

I hope to get a little more outdoor stitching done this evening after work in the soft light of evening.  The English Band Sampler is calling for attention rather insistently.  I hope it is not unbearably humid in the early evening hours.

With luck, I'll have made enough progress on both The English Band Sampler and The Dragon of the Winter Moon to warrant some photos in the next day or so.

Mining the Stash

I spent a little time yesterday shopping my own stash and found these items.  All of these were separate purchases but they came together nicely.    It's rather like a stash in search of a chart deal.  The fabric is Picture This Plus' Belfast 32ct Aurora.  The multicolored rick rack picks up the colors in the lighter skein of Waterlilies, while the darker skein of Waterlilies takes the colorway a few tones deeper.  The solid color rickrack picks up the color in the Belle Soie silk and the fabric for a tone on tone effect.  

I am not sure which way I want to go but there is enough fabric to do both.  I do have two ideas for charts: an Easter Egg Sampler chart I have in my to-do binder or Teresa Wentzler's Futurecaster dragon chart.  Anybody else have any ideas?

If I go with the above mentioned charts, I'd probably stitch the Easter Egg tone on tone and use one of the Waterlilies skeins for the dragon, choosing two solids from that color way to complete the kitting up.  I'll have to check my bead stash to see if I have anything that works with what I have already gathered.