I don't usually plan my Stitchscapes. As in, when I'm starting out I might not have an idea of the scene that I want to make, or I might just have one fabric to work a whole landscape around. Rarely something might be roughly sketched out - usually if I'm incorporating some kind of building and I have to have some kind of templates for specific shapes.
This lack of planning also generally goes into kit designs. I do have to collect the fabrics first because I need to buy in bolts of multiple metres so I basically spend months building up a collection of fabrics and then select some to turn into a kit. The Fire Flower kit was theoretically easy to re-make because I had some of the fabrics already there, and I also had the template design to just recreate and improve but I wanted to try and change up some of the thread colours used to match the new fabrics and make things a little different. But, for this first re-draft, my winging it and seeing what happens didn't work!
Of course, if you purchase a Fire Flower kit, either the original or the new version, there is nothing stopping you from adding, adapting and changing the thread colours as you would like. I really try to encourage individuality and although most of my kits give you layer by layer instructions, it doesn't mean you have to follow them if you have a better idea or would like to try a different technique.
Interestingly, the colours of red and orange and purple as a combination seem to be often used - both Fire Flowers have this colour combination in the bottom fabric, but I've not embellished the purple on either official kit. Would you have added the purple in do you think?
It's currently hanging up in my hallway so I see it every time I walk through the front door so it's not such a neglected hoop any more!
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