I am super excited! My iPhone finally has a snazzy home. I have seen these cases around, here and here, and loved them. I finally ordered one (I have no idea what took me so long!) and spent the past few days laying out my design.
I had a lot of fun with my colored pencils and graph paper.
I am really in to argyle and geometrics at the moment and I’m loving all things nautical so I really wanted to work those two together. What I ended up with is the notion that I need waaay more than just one of these cases. The design I decided to stitch was my 11th idea. Yikes!
As usual, when I went diving through my floss to pick my colors I got overwhelmed so I turned to my go to color guide Design Seeds. Have you guys come across this yet?
OMG I love it! The photographs are beautiful and the color palettes are stunning. I have a pinterest board specifically set up just for this website. I love it! No surprise here, but I found the perfect color combination for my project!
I drew up some chevrons, stripes, diamonds and argyles and ultimately decided on my diamonds. It reminded me of a true basic cross stitch and I liked it most because I could use all the colors that I wanted to! I purposely moved the repeat of the design off the center just to make the edges a little more interesting. My first design included ecru borders but you really couldn't see it against the white case and I had also drawn the orange diamonds to be tight x's like the blues but when stitched it just looked too dense. I went back to the drawing board, added some white negative space and opened up the orange to be every other stitch and got what I was looking for. It took a lot longer to stitch up than I had anticipated but I am really happy with the result!
I can't wait to be that person when I whip out my phone and show off! ;)
As always thanks for stopping by!
Aaaand have a safe and happy Easter!
~Leah
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