Stitching Progress

[annuin]

Sunday night I finished part 2 of my St. Petersburg White Nights cross-stitch piece. Hopefully this weekend I'll manage to get part 3 completed. I'm hoping to catch up with the online class a bit over the next month or two (which is currently at part 9, with parts released monthly).

Comments

[illiana-galean.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful! I have to say, I admire your patience, I know I couldn't do it.

[ladyattercop.livejournal.com]

Holy god! That's gorgeous!

Beautiful, beautiful work.

[ozzguy.livejournal.com]

You really are so talented! I bet you get a lot of pleasure out of completing something like this :)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

It's definitely nice to be able to have something physical in your hands that you made :) There's a lot of satisfaction to be had in creating actual things.

I've still got a lot of work to do before it's completed, but it'll be awesome when finished.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

And the picture doesn't even do all the sparkly metallics justice at all (or the colours... I took the picture inside with just a lamp and the flash, rather than natural light which helps a lot).

[passercul.livejournal.com]

Oooh, good progress. I can't wait to see it when it's finished. :)

How many parts is it divided into?

[ladyattercop.livejournal.com]

I can imagine. (I can never get good pictures of my crafties.)

I can't get over how gorgeous your cross stitch is. I can do samplers. I never knew there was stuff like this out there.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

12. It's a one year online class, and one part is released per month. Obviously you can stitch for longer than a year, but during the course of a year is when the Yahoo group for that class is up and running, and the chart parts released.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I never knew it either, until I found out my aunt was doing ones from this designer.

I bought/"inherited" this chart from my aunt after she passed away:


She worked on it somewhat, and just under a quarter is completed:


The designer's site is here: http://chatelaine-design.de/newweb/ The Mandala section is the main one to look at (IMO), those are the designs I like the best. Some of the Mandala Gardens start life as Mysteries, where you don't know what the pattern looks like besides a picture of materials and a description, so it's a surprise as each piece is released each month. Others start life as Online Classes, like the one I'm doing, where you have a computer generated preview picture and know pretty much what it'll look like (barring fine details etc.).

So it's all my aunt's fault, she got me into this designer.