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Boo Chalk Full by Hands on Design

I finished up Boo Chalk Full by Hands on Design just a few days ago. The Chalk Full series are inspired by Priscilla Blain's beautiful hand drawn chalk designs she changes through the seasons on a chalkboard in her home. Cathy Habermann from Hands on Design transformed them into fun cross stitch patterns. I am enrolled in the Fat Quarter Shop Chalk Full Club. Each time a new Chalk Full design is released I get a complete package from Fat Quarter Shop to stitch up each piece. The kit includes the chart, fabric and threads. The Boo design is the second in the series (blog post coming soon on the first design, Harvest, that I stitched up several weeks ago!) and so much fun to stitch!



The kit came with Chalkboard Black 14 count Aida. I have really been enjoying stitching on this fabric and it is the perfect color to mimic a chalkboard. The floss colors included were Gentle Art Sampler Threads Chalk and the Classic Colorworks threads Pumpkin Harvest, Dublin Bay and Pea Pod. When stitching the Chalk Full designs I enjoy stitching all the white and then fill in with color. When I started filling in the pumpkins with the Classic Colorworks Pumpkin I wasn't overly pleased with the color. In my opinion it was a very pastel peach color which I didn't feel went well with my Halloween decor in my home. A few weeks ago I had picked up a Weeks Dye Works in the color Pumpkin to put in my stash for Halloween stitching. I ended up pulling out this color and stitching the pumpkins with this shade of orange instead. It is a much deeper and brighter orange which I was happy with. After stitching the orange pumpkins I started filling in the leaves with the Classic Colorworks Pea Pod. Once again, I did not care for the color. I thought I needed a brighter green. I went through my DMC stash and decided to use a combo of DMC 704 and 906. Since the design is stitched with 2 threads I used 1 strand of each color. I thought the shade and brightness of the green really complimented each other. Those were the only color changes I made to the Boo Chalk Full Design.



After I stitched Boo Chalk Full, I mounted it to a piece of PresOn self adhesive mounting board then hot glued black mini pipping around the edges. I was very indecisive how I wanted to fully finish and display my piece. After a couple of days I decided that I wanted to see if my local JoAnn had the cute Halloween door piece Priscilla Blain had used for one of her recent finishes. Luckily my JoAnn had one left so I snatched it up! I made a few changes to the piece (I go into my FlossTube episode below of all the changes) and placed my Boo Chalk Full in the middle. Here is the end result and I am very happy with it!


Check out my FlossTube video here to see it on video. I share about all the changes I made to the Halloween door piece. I am working on the smaller Boo Chalk Full design and will be finished shortly. Blog post to come when it is fully finished!



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