A New Little Cowboy!

I am stitching up a project for a sweet baby boy that has just been born.  We had a cowboy themed baby shower earlier this summer for his mom and it really inspired me to make a cowboy themed hand embroidery pattern set.  I am so glad I did because now I am embroidering a project for his nursery.   I started by putting together several of the motifs from the Cowboy pattern packet and transferred them onto this beautiful linen fabric:

I have done some of the stitching but now I am re-thinking the floss color I am using for the rope.  I had used the variegated floss you see on the left and I liked it until I was done.  Looking at it, I realized it wasn't going to be a good match with the other strong colors in this project...

such as the red I am using for the name.  So I switched to this brown and I am so much happier with it.  I am thinking I will use silver metallic thread for these horse shoes you can see above the name:

 they will match the spur I have already done on his boot:

The baby's nursery is all done in barn red, brown, blues and cream.  I hope these colors will be perfect!