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

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

The fabric I'm doing it on is a medium blue I guess, so not too dark. That said, I have a project waiting in the wings on black ;) I have a good standing halogen reading lamp next to the couch, so I can highlight my work area quite well, which makes a huge difference. I also refuse to be intimidated by dark fabric ;) It may be a little harder, but with good lighting it should be workable.

The part that you can see now is about 8.5 x 8.5 inches, so roughly 21.5 x 21.5cm. Finished it'll be close to 26 x 26 inches (65 x 65 cm), so definitely more huge than it is now ;)

The nice thing about the online class and having the pattern broken down into 12 monthly installments is that it's less overwhelming when you're working it in sections, rather than looking at the entire design and wondering where the hell to start. I think you'd be much more likely to keep up with working on it that way... plus if you finish relatively quickly, you have the rest of the month to do other things so as not to get bored or burnt out.

[missingkeys.livejournal.com]

That sounds incredible. :)

My mother was the one working on black - well, my grandmother tried one too but it didn't work out so well. They both have lights and mirrors and wee cross stitch lap stands, but while mum's tiger-on-black turned out amazing my grandmother only has one eye and poor sight in that one to boot.

I'm pants at craft, but it does look very nifty.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I'm pants at craft, but it does look very nifty.

Well, the upside to this is that you don't have to come up with anything yourself, so no creativity required, just time and effort ;)

It's a bit like painting by numbers I guess, lol.