WIP with a slight design problem

[dianec42]

I am working on a silly piece for the upcoming office gift exchange. It's a Maria Diaz design called "Vineyard Holiday" from a recent issue of The World of Cross Stitching. (Sorry I don't know which issue.)

I am leaving out the fields and house in the background. In the resulting space I'll put these words:

To Do Today:
__ Drink
__ Know things

Here's my progress so far:




I'm not at all happy with the green highlights in the glass. It would look fine with green fields behind it but as things stand it doesn't really make sense. I'm thinking of pulling out the green and replacing it with a very pale sky blue. Colour choices (existing green and proposed blue) are below the cut:




What do you think?

Comments

[nicki]

IDK, the green looks good as is and I don't know that the blue would necessarily work with the existing color scheme, but it's also your project and if the blue would make you happier, go for it.

[lilacsigil]

Do you have a paler green maybe, or possibly one that's not so far down the yellow spectrum ? I don't think the blue goes with anything else in the picture but I agree that the green as is doesn't make sense.

[dianec42]

I might go with a very pale grey instead.

Now that the sun has finally come out, I think I'll hold it up with the frame (a distressed pale sage green) and see how it looks with the green.

[angrboda]

I would keep the green. It's like colour reflected in the glass from the bottle. The blue, I think, would stand out too much. Alternatively I'd go for a way paler, almost white blue.
It's not all that many stitches though, so if you pull them and try it and find you don't think it works, it's not a huge amount of work to change it back.

[fred_mouse]

If you hadn't pointed it out, I probably never would have noticed the green. If it isn't gelling with the rest of the picture, would it work to add a few other crosses in the areas where you have left out the background?

[dianec42]

Thank you all for your comments!

For what it's worth, the original pattern does include some blue sky. But I don't have that shade, and as it's Black Friday and I've already left the house TWICE today, that just wasn't going to happen.

A friend on my own journal mentioned that "the blue-grey" would capture the generic glass highlight, which was what jogged my brain to consider a pale gray. I went with that and I like it a lot better.



With the rest of the white stitching done (don't worry, outlines are coming):