Pyramid Etui - final version!!

After Nicki kindly offered me some blue silks to come up with a new colourway, I started thinking I’d love something in “Monet” colours … then a few minutes later I remembered I had a Silk ‘n’ Colors thread that was in that sort of colourway.  No sooner had I found that thread, that I looked at my couple of RG Splendor threads I had, and found a dusky mauve that matched … there was no hope after that! 

I’ve been dragging threads from all over the place, including pilfering one from the Stitching Leporello kit, and utilising the green from the original Pyramid kit.  Anyway, I can’t believe it, but I think I’ve come up with a colour scheme that I’m really really happy with!  It means I just have to buy a couple of skeins of silks, as some colours need extra lengths - plus I need to buy about 4 skeins of the Hand-Dyed Fibres premium silk (in Midnight) … anyway, without further ado I’ll show you my final choices (I just hope like hell I can get the remaining skeins from Karen at Dragonfly Dreams super-quick!).  The threads are in the same order that I’d be stitching them on the bargello bands.

I hope CA Wells isn’t too upset I’ve totally changed her colour scheme - but I have to admit I really love this new one so much better.  I wasn’t really looking forward to stitching it before, but now I can’t wait to get started, and that’s gotta be a good thing!

The new threads are, from left to right:  Silk ‘n’ Colours 982 Summer Shadows, Hand-Dyed Fibers Midnight, mystery green silk from the original kit, Soie Cristale 7063, NPI silk 352, RG Splendor S936, and AVAS Soie d’Alger 2212.  Rightio, I’m off to start ordering (yes, you’d be right in thinking “aren’t you supposed to be stitching today?” … but there’s always tonight in front of the TV right? LOL).