I forgot .... Floche

 Hey everybody.  It's Labor Day weekend.  What?  Couldn't believe how many houses had straw bales and pumpkins in their yard on the drive to see Carole.  That was pretty disheartening and confirmation of what I don't want to accept.  I've been in sweatpants so often these past three months that I never really put them away for summer.  And I'm in them again and will be all week.

Once again, I had to frog quite a bit.  Two flowers were off, too lazy to work out a fix.  I don't ever remember DMC shredding like this but after just a few pulls, it's a mess.  I completely forgot about the white threads I purchased a while back, one of them being floche.  

The heavier DMC #20 and #25 were actually too heavy, and the floche was also.  Bulky looking on the 36 count and sitting higher than the other stitches.  Floche is not to be separated (so I read) but I pulled out one strand easily and it made enough of a difference.  The other flowers were stitched with standard DMC white and the floche is on the larger blue. 

Not obvious in the photo but it is more noticeable than plain dmc and I'm pleased with it.  It does seem to get  .... fuzzy? .... matte? .... something.  Since this will be handled quite a bit, it would have been better to stitch last.  If it looks messy when the sampler is finished, that small area can be done over.

If you're wondering why I haven't mentioned the other magnifying floor lamp, it was lost.  Amazon refunded the order and reported it as lost.  I don't think I can replace my circline fluorescent with their new LED, don't see that option after much searching but I will contact Dazor to check.  I guess it has to be compatible with the ballast.

A few more stitches in the tree and I will move to the next page.  Across?  Or down?  Oh these decisions.

Have a nice weekend.

Just got a note - ordered 36 and 40 Oatmeal!!

***********************