Late last week I was feeling the need to take another short break from the "shades-of-brown" blanket. Fortunately, I had this sweet little cross stitch waiting in the wings to be finished:
I enjoyed using a variegated floss and strategically working out where the light and dark shades would be on the design. And then twisting the variegated with a solid red floss for the trim. You can perhaps see the different shades in the lighter floss of the cording in this close-up:
And just look at the sweet fabric on the back:
To be honest, what I like most about the fabric is that it's not overly Valentine-themed. I'm already imagining other uses for it.
While I mentioned this the first time I showed this project in progress, I'll note again (mostly for myself) that the cross stitch pattern was found in the February 2015 Just Cross Stitch magazine. The variegated floss is DMC 48, and the solid red used in the cording is DMC 321. To get this size cording, I used 4 lengths of each color (solid and variegated, all six strands in each length). And the length of each color used was 5 times the perimeter of the square pillow. I'm so glad I tried making my own cording again. Using my Kreinik Custom Corder was a cinch this time.
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