Thoughtful Heart

I was really pleased with the progress I made on my holiday project, Thoughtful Heart from Shepherd’s Bush. So much so that I actually finished it on Sunday! I can’t believe it took me less than 2 weeks to complete it.

I’m also particularly pleased as I bought this as the chart alone (not the complete kit) on ebay and converted the threads to DMC. I think the conversion worked really well, although I did change all the yellow after I arrived back home from holiday.

I particularly loved the speciality stitches, they are my best thing – I love them, kiss kiss (sorry, too much Little Wolf). I really like the texture added by those areas of Ukranian Whitework.


I was initially also a bit sceptical at first about only using one strand of thread, but now I really appreciate the delicate effect.

The conversion I used is as follows:

Colour Description	Soie ’Alger colour	DMC colour
Pale Rose	4147	225
Middle Rose	4632	778
Deep Rose	4634	316
Plum	4635	902
Pale Purple	3332	211
Middle Purple	5113	3041
Deep Purple	5114	3740
Pale Butter	F1	3823
Pale Green	3721	369
Middle Green	3713	3052
Deep Green	3715	3051
Gold	4235	436
Deep Grey (Kreinik, Silk Mori)	8055	646
Pale Grey	3421	3024
Crème	F2	Ecru
Butter	F19	745

I used some online sources to convert as many colours as I could and then did a bit of a floss toss to fill in the gaps and make sure all the colours fitted together in the overall palette.

The online sources I used include:

http://www.hand-dyedfibers.com/oscnuked/modules.php?name=DaDaBik
http://www.thesophisticatedstitcher.com/fibers/dmc2alger.php
http://www.willowfabrics.com/Convert_DMC_Soie_d_alger.html