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One corner to go

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One more corner and the knot outline and the worst of the counting will be done *dancing* I got a bit of a rude surprise with the green that I'm using to stitch this outline, when I picked up the threads they only had 2 of the 3 skeins I needed so the shop ordered another skein for me and sent it with one other color they were out of, the color is COMPLETELY different! The 2 I got initially were green with a grey/blue tint to it, the 3rd skein is just plain green, thankfully it doesn't jump out too bad on the design and once the stitching is done in-between the outline it should be less noticeable still, but if I had been stitching a solid area I would have been pretty grumpy. I've heard of variances in dye lot but this looks like the wrong color got put on the card. Now I've got a nice mental note there in my mind that next time I use this thread and need multiple skeins to buy them all at once to make sure of the colors. They are hand dyed so they have potential