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Right now with all the stress of the lump in my breast, my concentration just isn't there for working on larger pieces. So I started a Lizzie Kate design, "Peace Love And A Cure". I am going to make it into a little pillow and on the back I will stitch "HOPE" and "FIGHT" to remind me to fight it with all I have if it turns out to be a cancerous tumor. If not then I will just stitch HOPE, or find a pretty fabric to back the pillow and donate it. I also wanted to stitch something with brighter, cheerful colors, and this pattern jumped out at me.

Because I do not have any Weeks Dye Works threads, I had to use the DMC colors and since I didn't have all the ones that were charted or didn't like them, I made some changes. Here is the list of changes I made:

WDW Begonia to DMC 309---am using DMC 3831
WDW Moss to DMC 731 --- am using DMC 3833 (wanted the word Love to be pink/red not green)
WDW sweetheart Rose to DMC 316---am using DMC 210 (the 316 caused the "E" in love to get lost so I chose a lighter purple)

Here is the first WIP pic, taken June 27, 2010



Here is what it looks like as of last night (the 28th):



I hope to finish it in a couple days since it is over half-way done already.


Raven

It's very pretty!

A brilliant idea Raven and the lovely colours will be a help too.

Good on you for your wonderful fighting spirit

Squirrel

How inspiring!! Very nice design and love how it looks so far

What a perfect pattern!!!!!!

this is a lovely pattern and I hope all the best for you....as a cervical cancer survivor I know how it feels..keep us posted

....lovely choice!! I love LK too...keep up the fighting spriit !!!

Lovely piece!

Pretty! and you have done loads there already!

I've seen and admired this design on their website and it's wonderful to see you stitch it!

A great idea

it's a lovely chart.
beautiful stitching!!!

What a perfect and inspiring design!
Faith

This is a fantastic idea, Raven! I have myself done a lot of stitching to keep up my spirit. Well done

Beautiful design!

This is a lovely design Raven and very inspiring, well chosen

Thank you all

I changed the 3831 to 3832 as the 3831 was too dark I thought. I also changed the green used for the peace symbol. All the other background images (flower and heart) were brighter shades and the green that was called for was a darker green, so I switched to 164. I finished it at 4:30AM July 15th. Here are pictures of the front and the back. I'm rather proud of the back, it is one of my neatest ones so far. Of course, it is easier to be neat when there are not mulitple color changes in small areas LOL

A lovely finish, and a backside to be proud of !

That is very pretty!!!!!

Lovely!