The first day of Autumn 2026

 and further progress with the small and a funny (well I think it is funny) coincidence.

Dark pink confirmed I started with the light pink

Then on to the mid pink

Then, that from stash dark pink

Then  green and brown, finishing off with dots of white, cross stitch on the main area of the design was completed.

A beep on my phone,  pre order information for the leader of Forestella's new solo album. And the coincidence amused me, the colours differ but you can see why I laughed. Especially as for me a tea pot is not what you would call a useful item. I don't drink it at all, I find the smell of it awful, my poor grandmother who was quite sure it was a cure all never could persuade me to touch the stuff. Therefore me being in the process of stitching one just as this comes up!

This is the best I could capture the image as a screen shot , this is a link to the official You Tube Chanell for the artist, not sure how long this image will remain there. ChoMinGyu official You Tube

On to the backstitch

There are still stamens to do on the large pink flower, and there should also be a butterfly top left. Of course I am now contemplating if it would be fun to add the album title there instead.( Sweet Escape) Oh and the original has the word tea on the tea pot...might I put something else?  The same word but in Hangul maybe ? 

So a pause on this now for contemplation so I may pick up another small to do (till the thread stops hiding) and hope the next small does not suddenly feel like it needs any contemplation on pattern deviation or playing hunt the thread number.