Stitching 12/4/25 - Away We Ride

 Here's the photo I think I showed for Away We Ride the other day.

I decided to work on Away We Ride first. This may be an older Blackbird chart. It's in a booklet form and the chart goes right across the fold. That makes it harder for me to get a good quality, straight PDF copy for Markup. Wednesday evening I spent probably 5 hours trying to get that pdf made and get it imported and straight in Markup. I finally gave up and went to bed. When I got up yesterday morning, I knew I was not ready to give up so I made a copy, being as careful as I could to get the booklet pages straight in the printer/copier. Then I used the rotary cutter and a ruler to cut 1/4" around the stitching so even though the pages weren't perfectly straight, I could "square" them up. That still didn't work! I counted and counted and it never would work out right. I've never had that happen before. With Markup and the way I like to stitch is to show the chart as one page vs. having four or five pages. I finally just left it as individual pages and because I couldn't get the grid count right, I just turned off the grid. Not my favorite way to stitch but I'll get it done.

Yesterday afternoon I got a bit of stitching done.

The called for colors on the area I've worked on so far are Onyx, which is a greenish black; Garden Gate which is a blackish green. You really can't tell the difference in the two so I ended up adding in some "Bark" which is more of a brownish olive. I would probably have changed to more contrasting colors when I worked on this several years ago if I had not been so new and unsure of myself.

Maybe I'll get more stitching done today. 

There are some brighter colors and hopefully I'll get to some of those tomorrow.