A Bit of a Failure

Do you remember this design?  You might not since I haven't stitched on it for literally months and months!  It is my Chatelaine Mystery IX--which is a French Garden design.  I was so gung ho on this at the end of last year and the beginning of this one.  But I just fizzled.  Martina's designs are generally lovely and fairly intricate.  But I have decided that I am terrible with the sorts of designs which are revealed monthly, and that this particular design is just not appealing to me personally.  I think this will be the last time that I do one of these monthly installment sorts of projects without first seeing either the completed design or enough of it to get an idea of what it really will look like.  It is a pity as next year's design is a Victorian Garden, which sounds like it could be quite nice.  It is all too expensive though to guess on something like this.  I am not sure what I will do with this one.  Perhaps when it is all completed and I can see it I will change my mind.  I hate to think of how much money I spent and now it may just sit un-stitched.  I should take out the silks at least and see if they can be used for some other design (however NPI has so many hundreds of colors,what is the chance that another designer will use a similar color palette?).  I finally sat down last night and printed out the charts from May through September, which I had not bothered about once I put it away.  Needless to say in the future I need to be more careful about kitting up designs that are this expensive!  I should go back to Mystery IV, which I have kitted up and stitch that instead.  I prefer that one--it has lovely peacocks stitched over one in it!!