16th January Project-Start

Happy Monday right?  Right.  What a doom and gloom day, raining like a pest, but PERFECT for stitching! Last night I started a project that I treated myself to last year.  The Essamplaire Victorine Delacroix.  Only sold only as a kit when I bought it, (I think it still is), which buying kits is something I dont normally do, but there are exceptions to every rule.  I love the sampler, love the colors, but I switched out the fabric.  I had to do something, and the fabric it came with, wasnt something that appealed to me for the long haul of this project.  The linen it came with has been added to the linen drawer, for maybe ornaments (alot of ornaments) or something :)

Another reason I do not like kits, is that the threads come all in a bunch and you have to spend a tremendous amount of time sorting them, even though Margriet did a great job in laying them out perfectly, there is always some shifting in the mail etc.  None the less, Victorine will be worth the trouble.

Amazing the difference, I was thrilled to find the thread cards enclosed, I remember as a child, my mother buying me kits, specifically needlepoint kits, and the thread was so thick, and didnt fit into the cards, so I can remember her helping me make new thread cards, ones with adequate holes, made out of heavy cardboard.  For this piece there were only a few colors that I needed to share a space across the aisle if you will and it will be pretty easy.

Again, starting in the top right, I didnt get as much done as I would have liked, sorting the threads and all, but I managed to get 4 colors into it.  I know this is going to be an amazing piece for sure.