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Amazing how much detail you can get with just six shades of the same colour! (i.imgur.com)

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Throwback post to the Steotchalone 2020 (or however you spell it). I don't normally take part in any time-intensive or team events because frankly I wouldn't be able to keep up, but during the lockdown they ran a version designed for solo participation and I signed up on a total whim.

Our instructions were to basically pick a palette of six shades with suitable contrast, then await the pattern!

Thoroughly enjoyed this stitch. It was amazing seeing it come together with so few colours involved, and the texture of the hair and beard is really cool.

You can tell I'm proud of it because I basically never FFO anything otherwise. I ironed this and everything! 😄

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's very cool! Did you get sick of the same shades all the time? I've got a project that's 11 shades of grey and I keep putting it down because it gets a bit dreary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly no, they released it in multiple parts (think it was weekly) and for the first couple it didn't even look like a person never mind anyone recognisable, so it was kind of fascinating seeing it all come together.

Each section was small enough that it didn't get old, plus there was the fun game of showing my partner and making him guess what it was going to be 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have the pattern? I would love to make this for my house

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sadly I don't think they made it available outside of the event, although I could be wrong. It was one of those Facebook things, if they're still going you can probably find someone to ask by searching for "Steotch" or "Steotchalong".

They also have an Etsy shop so again maybe you can message and ask, or maybe they'll even have something else you like better!

Sorry I can't be more help with that one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks amazing! I feel like all the different shades in the hair would have driven me nuts lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm remembering right, that was done with blends ie you thread the needle with a strand of two different colours and stitch like that.

I think the instructions also specifically said to not railroad those bits (railroading is a way to make your stitches lie flat and neat), so the result was the blended colours sort of twisting around each other randomly and giving a cool messy texture.

Really clever pattern, all round!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw some of those blended colors when I was at the craft store the other day and wondered what they were used for lol!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure if you mean ones like in these?

DMC variegated floss DMC Coloris floss

If so, those are actually a bit different and have multiple colours along one length of floss. Whereas with a blend it's just literally taking one strand of your colour A, and one strand of your colour B, and threading the needle with both at the same time.

You see it called for sometimes to get a particular effect like in this project, or sometimes to help create a sort of mid-way shade between the two used in the blend that otherwise doesn't exist as its own colour.

The variegated ones like in the pics are really cool as well though, I like to use them for blackwork especially!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just recently watched your blackwork tutorial! The pattern from the video is next on my to-do list, so I might try it with some of the multicolor floss now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh god, that video is so old I'm afraid to go back and check whether it even made any sense at all 🙈 Hopefully it was at least a bit useful.

Blackwork is maybe my fave type of stitching I've tried so far, honestly, it's extremely satisfying (and so quick compared to cross stitch!). Looking forward to seeing what you come up with 🙂