cross_stitch | WIP with a slight design problem

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?

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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):

Edited 2018-11-24 01:07 (UTC)

WIP with a slight design problem

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