Stitching Progress

[annuin]

I finally finished part 1 of my St. Petersburg White Nights cross-stitch pattern. Well, almost. It's missing the crystals and beads, but this is all the actual stitching for part one.

This is part of a very large cross-stitch piece. It's an online class where one part is released each month (and I'm way behind, of course, lol, though I started late). To give you an idea, part 1 is about 5.5 x 5.5 inches (13.5 x 13.5 cm) and the finished design should be about 27 x 27 inches.

It's stitched with various silk threads and metallics on 32ct Millennium Blue linen. There are also 2 specialty stitches in this section, Rice stitches (the navy ones in the middle) and Rhodes stitches (the less visible and smaller aqua coloured little blocks in the "legs" of the cross) .








A computer generated image of what the finished design should resemble:



The design is by Martina Weber of Chatelaine Designs.
http://chatelaine-design.de/newweb/

Comments

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I hadn't done it since I was in my early-mid teens until I picked it up again early this year. Mostly I got back into it by way of my aunt who died... I bought one of the pieces she hadn't finished (Egypt Garden) and hope to finish it one day.

First I wanted to get into it with something easier, which was the Bookshelf design I started and finished earlier this year.

Due to my aunt I've kind of gotten hooked on the Chatelaine designs. The St. Petersburg is one, as is the Egypt Garden that I kind of inherited from her. There are so many lovely (and large) designs that I'd love to do, and the designer keeps coming out with new ones, which is kind of frustrating at times... no time to do all the things I'd like to, lol.