WIP: Stiefmütterchen SAL

Here's pansy #4 from Stiefmütterchen by Der Feine Faden. I am now 1/4 finished with the entire piece!

This pansy was not much fun to stitch, as it was mostly white-on-white. The picture's not great, but in person it looks good. I think it looks nicer alongside the other pansies I had already stitched:


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Despite not being as much fun to stitch as some of the others, this fourth pansy has cemented my liking for the chart as a whole. I really like how naturalistic the flowers look, how unique each one is. Even seeming imperfections add to the realistic character of the design. There is no backstitching to come, and I really think it looks best that way. I am looking forward to stitching the next pansy -- an orange one that Renee has already stitched on her SAL. (Renee and I are doing the flowers in a different order.)

Now I have to decide whether to put this away until next month (I had one pansy on my goal list for August) or if I want to take it on our weekend trip to Pennsylvania. I will want something easy to stitch while we're traveling, so I may not want to take along the Margaret Sherry piece. I'll have to think about it.