Stitching - Continued

[annuin]

Tuesday night I finished part 3 of my St. Petersburg chart.

Time consuming with all the backstitching on the wrought iron gates, but it's taking shape nicely.

Once again the pictures don't necessarily show everything quite true to colour, being that they were taken with the camera flash and indoor halogen lighting, rather than natural light. It's washing out the colours somewhat, unfortunately.



And one with more detail, you can see the Algerian eyelets and (two-tone) Rice stitches here in the part 2 I stitched:

Comments

[passercul.livejournal.com]

I'm curious; how big exactly is the finished piece going to be? I'm presuming you can't resize it yourself, either, but then again I don't know the first thing about cross-stitch.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Finished it should be close to 26 x 26 inches (about 65 x 65 cm).

What you see in the picture is about 8.5 x 8.5 inches (21.5 x 21.5 cm).

So yes, it will be quite large when completed (411 x 411 stitches). There will also be a fairly incredible amount of detail as well. Once I get to part 5 or so, that's when the buildings begin.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the only "resizing" that you can really do is changing the thread count of the fabric. This is on 32 count (32 threads per inch), as recommended by the designer. I wouldn't dare try a higher thread count either, besides being even harder there will be beads and crystals, and they won't fit as well because the spaces left open for them would be too tight.

Quite a few people in the online class are doing it on 28 count fabric, which will make their total design size somewhat larger (though not by *loads*). It's a bit easier to work on because there's less thread density per inch.

[passercul.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! 26" square. That's... huge. How are you going to display it? Or is it going to be a gift?

And beads and crystals! Dear me. Well, I'm sure it'll turn out beautifully. :)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

No, this is no gift. It's really way too expensive for me to want to gift it. And that's besides the fact that after so many hours of work on it, I doubt I'd wish to part from it.

I'll likely have it framed and hang it on the wall somewhere.

The big and expensive projects are purely selfish ones, for me to hang on my walls ;)