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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nCompare mine which is the middle one between two “Darlene O’Steen” examples for which I’m trying to replicate the colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My yellow is more butter-y but that is on purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also decided I couldn’t live with my mistake on the La D Da Flowers from Mary. It was no big deal to rip it out and restitch and I’m happy to not have to be reminded that whole border is off by a stitch. I can live with some things but borders need to be good.<\/p>\n\n\n I love stitching. I don’t know how I managed so long these last months without having good stitching sessions, except I was so dang busy and tired. I still am but at least now the busy and tired is the every day kind and not the extraordinary kind that comes with total life upheaval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Idea: I am still considering chucking my plans for this year…doing the WIPGO etc., and focusing on Dorcas. I mapped out the bands. If I do a section each month, I *could* finish this on Christmas. Dorcas Haynes is also called The Christmas Sampler because it was finished on December 25, 1720. Could I do it? With all the specialty stitches? Hmmm… think think think. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started adding color to the first band of Dorcas Haynes, part of trying out my own color scheme. I have spent a lot of time sorting and matching colors on this so I\u2019m a bit nervous but also have a fair level of confidence\u2026Here is how it’s looking. Compare mine which is the middle one between two “Darlene O’Steen” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[199,41,200],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wips","tag-dorcas-haynes","tag-la-d-da","tag-the-scarlet-letter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2024-04-12-125921-1.jpg?resize=562%2C1000&ssl=1\")
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