I've started stitching my Birds of a Feather freebie, "Feed the Birds". I wanted to wait until I had more stitched to share a photo, but as I probably won't stitch much until the weekend I thought I'd just go ahead and take a photo. I am stitching on Belfast 32 ct. Raw linen and using a combination of DMC and overdyed floss as called for in the chart. I prefer all overdyed floss but don't want to take the time to order the missing colors.
Here are the colors I've pulled to use. I'm wondering if the "fire" DMC substitution (used for the words) isn't too bright? BOAF designs tend to use bright colors and I haven't got much else stitched to even things out yet, so maybe I am being too hasty? The flosses at the top right are more overdyed substitutions--using on strand of each color. I've never done this before and wonder how it will turn out. I think I'll keep going and if I hate it I can always order the missing overdyed flosses and start over again...
What do you think? Too bright? Okay? Too soon to tell?