Colibri - "Southern Sun"

[colibri]

Hi there ,
I decided to open this thread, just to get some motivation - the project I'm working on is rather large, and the chart is really not very friendly... so sometimes I just want to see the progress.

This is the picture from a Burda Cross Stitch magazine - from several years ago

[colibri]

And this is how the stitching looked last month

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And here is my update for today



It's Friday morning, relatively quiet here... so I decided that I deserve an hour of stitching, just for myself.

[marniecat]

It's so interesting that people on this forum are from everywhere! It's Friday morning for you but it's Thursday night here in California! I've got to go to bed while you are starting your day.
Enjoy your hour of stitching, it's a really pretty and cheery pattern and you've done a lot so far. Look forward to seeing your updates.
Have a great day, and goodnight.

[vanessanjf]

Very pretty

[Raine]

You've made so much progress!

[rcperryls]

very pretty. I love the colors and you have made really good progress.

Carole

[Wandatoo]

Very bright colours! Why is the pattern not friendly?

[karen4bells]

What an intriguing design and you've made fantastic progress on it!! Very nice

[Lili]

very pretty!!

[Rose]

It looks like it would be a great stitch. I am sorry that you seem to be haveing a problem with it. I hope that we all can keep you motivated. You have done so much already it looks great!!!!!

[tiffstitch]

Great progress! I hope your stitching continues smoothly, it seems like having blocks of colour would be soothing versus having tons of confetti.

[Cockneystitcher]

Nice design and nice bright colours.

[nettie]

Its a nice clear bright design lovely colours! You are doing great with it!!

[double j]

Looks great so far. Keep up the hard work.

[Fljotsdale]

Oh! I've seen this design before, and liked it a lot. Do keep going with it - I'd love to see it stitched up.

Why is the chart unfriendly? I know some are! I've worked more than one unfriendly chart, and even gave up on one - an Assisi work design (though I might finish it one day if I run out of other stuff I'd prefer to do! )

[middithree]

Love this one the colours are so nice and bright, keep up the lovely stitching

[colibri]

Thank you all for your encouragement!

The chart is not very friendly (though there probably are worse) because:
1. it's only black-and-white - that's not so much of a problem,
2. it uses both symbols and numbers for each color, so that the larger areas are coded with numbers. This is very inconvenient, because for each color area which is larger than, say, 3X3 but irregular, they combine numbers and symbols,
3. and finally - the key is wrong! They show symbols which are not even on the chart, and some of the chart symbols are not on the key . I had to do some detective work to match symbols and colors...

Even so, I like the picture so much, I guess it's worth it

[Rose]

Sounds very frustrating indeed.

[colibri]

Hi there,
This is where I am today: