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:applesauce: :applesauce: The colors are so pretty and the design is lovely.

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All of the colors are very pretty but I would still just use the 2 or I would use 2 brighter yellow and green. The design is wonderful!!!!!!
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very pretty design!
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Beautiful!!
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Not done much on Resurrection, but I did do another of the non-cut minis -- this one uses Anchor variegated perle, but it's really not strongly variegated enough; the change is so gradual it looks as though I did the center in a light thread and the outside in a darker one on purpose! The spider's web filling works OK "on top" though it may look better in #12, a bit less bulky :-)

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It does look a bit like you planned it out that way :lol: It's a very deep colored red on the outside.. I :wub: it
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While it does look like you used two different shades of red, rather than variegated, it is really lovely. :applesauce: Are you going to redo it with a different thread for the spider web? I love it now.

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I love it :) And I wouldn't have known it was variegated unless you'd said something, as it does indeed look well planned! :wub:
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I'm trying out different combinations for all the little minis -- they'll make good gift-tags for Christmas, and they make a nice relaxing and non-challenging change from my larger projects when I'm finding it hard to concentrate!
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:wub: very pretty!!
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That looks great! Hmm, I was looking them over trying to pick which one to start... that looks like an interesting one. :applesauce: I also like how you "arranged" your colours.
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Your work is just beautiful!
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I did another mini last night, and decided to change the chart a bit while stitching, because I was using a lovely Threadworx shade which I have in #5 and stranded cotton -- unfortunately they don't do it in #8. So I took out some of the Kloster blocks in the center of the heart, and replaced them with Rhodes stitches done in stranded cotton:

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I just :wub: this shade -- I'm thinking of a design in this shade using some of the stitches from the book of Ukranian whitework DH got me :thinks:
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:applesauce: they might be "mini" but they are lovely.

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:wub: What's the name of the thread? It looks like it embodies the feeling of fall :wub:
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Lovely thread! Great design too and I love the 'mini' changes you made :lol:
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The red 'Resurrection' is lovely...I just love :wub: the deep red shades.

And as for the Threadworx heart, well I think the stranded floss in the same shade adds the right amount of texture to the Rhodes stitches.


this design needs a title too...how about Sunset Heart? :thinks:
It looks like the sky in a summers evening. 8)
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Faith, the shade is Threadworx #1078 Pastel Bouquet; it's available in perle #5 and stranded cotton. Some shades they do in #8 as well, like the one that's used in Scotland the Brave.

Wendy, none of the minis have names, I'm afraid -- Resurrection is the dragonfly design I'm working on at the moment, but it's quite big and requires more concentration than I can manage right now, so I play truant and do minis instead :-). I like your name for the heart though!
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lovely! so pretty colours! :applesauce: :applesauce:
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