My first try at designing a pattern-FUN!

This morning I decided I would try again at using some design software which seemed foreign to me last week when I got it in the mail.. I played with it a little and I didn't really want the software PC Stitch to duplicate photos........I wanted to play with it and try my hand at designing things that inspire me or thoughts on my brain. And boy did I have fun! FUN!

I almost gave up trying to figure it out but this morning, I got up and decided to try to learn again.
I spent a couple of hours and made this sampler and I had a great time doing it. I'm definitely not a professional at this but I thought I would share what I did this morning.

Funny, as I really don't know what this would look like really stitched and it turned out much larger than I anticipated. 
I decided to create a sampler of my view of our little nest in the mountains with some motifs and also has the date we first moved in here.

I still have to learn how to put this to my blog if I wanted to include it. That's why I had to take a pic of the monitor.  The motifs I wanted to include were our butterflies, the pink roses, the year, a heart, a windmill for the Dutchy part of us, a cross, and the two of us birds and a mental impression of the front of our house on a hill.

But, the printed version is like this:

I picked Crescent Colors as the threads.

I may have to change the colors when I start actually stitching this to see if they flow together or not.

I'm just playing and thought I would show you what my Saturday is going like.

It's definitely too hot to go outside!

So, whatcha think?

I still have a lot to learn about this software program but it's fun learning something new.