The Best Intentions...

Argh!  That's really all there is to say.  Somewhere between Roanoke and San Jose, I seem to have lost the little white bag of fibers for Why Hoard Gold? So when I was at Needle in a Haystack on Saturday, on my trip to the airport, I saw the WHG pattern and remembered this.  And thought, "Oh, I'll just grab that Marlitt I need to finish up the draggie."  Easy enough, and they did have that in stock, so I was a happy camper.  It did seem a little on the bright, yellow-y side, but heck, it's been most of five years since I've really worked on it.
 
So today I dig around and pull out the table stand frame bits, get it all set to start stitching, and hold my new Marlitt up to the part of the dragon it goes with. 
 
"Hmm, it's a bit greener than the rest of the dragon looks," I think to myself.  "Did I grab the wrong color?"  I checked the pattern, and yes, 1030 is the color of the dragon's body.  "Okay, maybe it looks a little different, when stitched."  So I stitched a few X's.  Nope, it's different.  It seems 1030 now is somewhere between 1030 and 1032 of 5 years ago. 
 
Add to that the fact that I need more of 3 other colors of Marlitt, and wondering how much they've changed in the meantime...  WHG may be a UFO for quite some time.  Unless that little bag of old flosses turns up, or I decide to frog half a dragon and restitch her all in new skeins of floss.  Boohoohoo. :(