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The ANG Cyberpointers Chapter online workshop, Landscape Features: A Notebook Class Kit, with Gail Stafford, is only 4 weeks. So, I want to focus on this, although I am sure Gail will answer questions afterward.

I left the bottom and a couple of areas unpainted.

I tested more sky stitches and thread weights (3 strands along the bottom and 2 strands higher up). They all lie on the true diagonal.
Bottom right is Nobuko (smaller)
Bottom left is Diagonal Victorian Step (middle size).
Top left is Triple Nobuko (largest)

I used WDW 1161, 2109, and 1155 some areas 3 strands, some 2 strands, some combinations of 2 colors.

Not painting some areas didn’t make much of a difference even with 2 strands because the strands are laid on the diagonal. 

My ranking for the order of the stitches that I like for a sky are Nobuko is best (there is no direction to the pattern), Triple Nobuko is second (I see columns formed by the holes where threads go in and out but I do like the horizontal flow of the pattern), and Diagonal Victorian Step is third (ridges and the holes are too evident).