Week Two of WIPGO 2023 brings me to ABCs of Parenting by Lizzie Kate. This is the first of Lizzie Kate’s patterns that I’ve ever stitched, although I have a few of them in my stash. I love the style of LK’s patterns, although like many designers, I get a bit limited due to the religious nature of many of them. This, thankfully, was one that was much more universal.
I acquired the pattern and some enclosed floss via a freebie table at either Stitcher’s Hideaway or Celebration of Needlework sometime 2019ish. It was charted with a mix of Crescent Colors (now Classic Colorworks) and DMC, but whomever had stitched it before donating it to the freebie table had converted the entire thing to DMC. I have decided to go the DMC route, providing any missing colors from stash with “as close as possible” conversions of my own. The irony being that it was the DMC colors I needed to swap! That’s the beauty of patterns such as this – you really can’t go wrong with whatever you choose. I’ll likely make a few changes along the way. I already changed that small diamond shape next to “fair” to a yellow instead of the same color as the text.
I began my version of the project, like Week One’s Colonial Sampler, for the #nye12x12 stitch-a-long on December 31, 2021. I’m stitching it on 28 count cream Monaco (evenweave) over two with two threads. My photo to the left has the fabric showing it as quite white, but it’s a cream that borders a light lemon yellow.
Getting these first couple words in was a little tricky – the chart is quite small and not the clearest. But now that I have this initial bit in, I expect this to fly pretty quickly. Most of the piece is simple one-stitch wide lettering. It’s easy to bounce placement of new motifs and letters now.
My conversion, based upon the anonymous stitcher’s conversion, is as follows. Originals are Crescent Colors unless noted:
| ORIGINAL COLOR | CONVERSION COLOR |
| Blacksmith Blue | DMC 3799 |
| Eve’s Leaves | DMC 3364 |
| Prickly Pear | DMC 3609 |
| Queen Bee | DMC 676 |
| Red Ribbon | DMC 3350 |
| Tyler Boy Blue | DMC 813 |
| DMC 829 | DMC 420 |
| DMC 937 | DMC 3346 |
This is one of those pieces that I could stitch up pretty quickly, so although it’s only out right now for the two days of WIPGO, it may come up later for one of my focus months to complete it. We shall see. 🙂
For information on this blog series, please go to the WIPGO 2023 Introduction Post.
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I love Lizzie Kate but agree, some (many) of them are a little too faith-y for my taste! Depends on who I’m stitching for too.
This one is lovely though, and I agree with you that it will work nicely in DMC – no need to splurge on specialty floss if it won’t show up that much!