5.19 South Seas Mermaid Adaption

While I have had the pattern for this a while, I've never really felt the urge to stitch it quite yet...mainly because it's colours are so bland.  I'm sorry, but when you mention 'south seas mermaid' I tend to imagine something a bit...more colourful than the original pattern.

Anyway, I finished Royal Holiday, so I was looking for something new to start....so I figured why not adapt south seas?

Anyway, what happened from there was this

The humble beginnings, as I sorted out what colours to use

Colours more-or-less settled, starting to come to life

All the stitching finished!  Just beads left

The finished product!

Fair warning for this adaption - there was a LOT changed.  As in pretty much everything but the skin and hair colours were changed (And one bead.  I left one bead the same, LOL)
I also left out some beading, as a) I didn't think it needed any more (holy hell there were already a million beads on it, and the pattern called for YET MOREEEE) and b) I didn't have a bead in my stash that either fit the colours AND had the sheer quantity I would need.  So that happened.

Body

• 5982 -> 026 (Kreinik)
• 3514 ->1223 (Kreinik)
• 927 ->340
• 772/927 -> 156
• 772 -> 341
• 3770 -> 3840
• 939 -> 550
• 03048 -> 3844
• 356/758 -> 3844
• 926 -> 3746

Top fins

• 3607 -> 3844
• 3607/3609 -> 3845
• 3609 -> 3846

Bottom back fins

• 352 -> 3844
• 335 -> 3845
• 335/860 -> 3846

Trailing fins

• 3860 -> 156
• 844 -> 161
• 3609/3860 -> 156/3846

Stripe

• 335 -> 321
• 352 -> 321
• 922 -> 321
• 335/926 -> 321

Seaweed

• 844 -> 701
• 3860 -> 702
• 704 -> 703
• 5982 -> 015 (Kreinik)
• 3607 -> 321

And then the beads.  (I did mention a LOT had changed, right?)

• 72023 -> 72052
• 72012 -> 72052
• 03048 -> 00165
• 16616 -> SAME AS ORIGINAL
• 16615 -> 02031
• 03027 -> 02009
• 18828 -> 18830
• 18831 -> 02085
• 00525 -> 02035

• 03047 -> On arm, neck and top of bodice 10074, on tail fins, and trailing tendrils 00161
• 42031 -> on belly 00161, on trailing tendrils 02009

Backstitching stayed the same as original pattern, as did the hair and skin.

Stitched 2 over 2 on Chromatic Alchemy's 'Poseidon' Belfast linen