Orange Rug Yarn Musings

I've been spending a lot of stitching time on my Artist Trading Card (ATC) that is doing dual duty as my January project for the Take It Further Challenge and the 2007 Cyberstitchers President's Challenge (an ATC.) It's looking rather different from my original sketch, but I'm quite happy with it. I was going to do it on a higher thread count canvas, but I decided that the finishing might be easier with congress cloth and I had a scrap just the right size. I'm currently working on the inner border, there will also be an outer border and I hope to embroider my name and some info on a piece of cloth for the back - if I have time, they need to be to Rissa by January 30th!

The background is cashmere stitch, I did the diagonal half first and decided that it was looking too regimented, so I did the other half trying to just be random. If I were doing this again, I'd probably do the whole thing in a semi-random pattern. The tree is a mix of thorn stitch and chained bar with bullion knot roots. The inner border is just basketweave stitch, which I'm using mostly because I wanted something plain and stable. I'm also planning an outer border of buttonhole stitch.

I got the DMC color conversions for the color scheme off another challenge participants blog - unfortunately, I can't recall who at the moment. At any rate, I used DMC 210 (a lavender), 333 (a purple), 822 (a cream/beige), 964 (a light minty green), and 3768 (which looks dark green or blue green depending on the light.)