First Finish for 2026...

...and it's a cross stitch piece.

This is To All A Good Night, a kit from Shepherds Bush:

Specs:
Started 12/24/2025
Finished 1/3/2026
Kit with button from Shepherd’s Bush

This fabric came with the kit. I'm not a fan of how dark it is. The threads just fade into the fabric. This kit contained 4 shades of green and it was sometimes difficult to distinguish between the shades. I might have used the wrong shade in some places.🙄

I don't mind using Weeks Dyeworks threads as they have some wonderful colors. But sometimes the variations within the colorway make for some odd pooling. For example, the crescent moon is stitched in Olive (!?), which varies from gold to green. The gold is OK for the moon, but green? I was also unhappy with the gray used for the words. It varies from dark gray to very light gray. The very light gray is hard to read on the dark fabric. If I was using full versions of the threads, I could have controlled it better. However, the kit contained a limited amount of thread to complete the stitching. As it was, I ran out of one green colorway and I didn't have any in my stash.

I just went with it so i could get the project done.