has become a kind of “thing” in the cross stitch community. Arlene Cohen of Works by ABC released this particular patter at Nashville last month. Perhaps the best way to describe it is as a combination of a color gamp set out in a series of alternating small patterns and squares. What makes this fairly unique is that it uses 324 DMC colors. One a day? Finish in a year. Several a day? Finish sooner… etc. In any case there is a certain amount of fascination, be it morbid or not, with this particular pattern. If you are an Instagram fan, I am sure that you can find dozens, if not hundreds of people who are engaged in this particular bit of insanity.
Obviously, I got hooked or I wouldn’t be writing this particular commentary. My DMC is all – or mostly all – contained on my lovely Unplanned Peacock floss holders.
Most of the time I will spend the time and effort to pull the floss for a project. But this one? Not a chance, I am just grabbing the single strand (out of the six-ply) that I need as each color occurs. And here are the first 37 colors
which places me just over 10% of the total. It appears that I am gradually leaving the reds and pinks to head into the purples… Besides this particular bit of stitching, I put a few hundred stitches into a couple more projects.
Otherwise, I headed to the Kensington Library for the first Tuesday knitting group. Tomorrow is an early day.
