Brag. I mean it’s one thing to be happy I finished a silly little beanie with a funky pointed top that needs… well squigglies or charms… and I’m proud of myself, so don’t get me wrong…
But I cross stitch – and my backs are frame worthy.
Behold – for those of you who’ve read my silly Rohirrim fics, this was the piece that inspired Aefre’s wedding gown. It’s not done. My eyes are getting bad and the thing is done on 28 count (that would be 28 threads per square inch) and my light magnifying lamp needs a bulb. Stupid thing, but I’m getting to a point where a small lamp with no shade between the feet is necessary as well. If I had an entire weekend with nothing to do, no one to bother me… I could finish this..
The city on the hill (Edoras, in my mind) isn’t done (It’s only 3 shades of brown.) her shoe, some beading in her hair, the outlining on her face and her underdress (which, btw is 17 different shades of blue and blended needle blue) Oh and the one spot of her purple overdress. But you get the gist.
This is the back…
and close up sections (I hope these pictures stay large. Sometimes they do, sometimes, they don’t…
This is intricate. so I REALLY need to get awesome at knitting and crocheting. Really.
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Wow. Very well done!
I still have my first piece I made when Spawn was a newborn and my grandmother and mother in law and grand mother in law were in a corner of the NICU waiting room knitting away and I’m trying to cross stitch this little piece.
Unframeable. The back is such a huge knot. I look at it and laugh…
The stuff I did as a teen was like that, too, which is too bad. Mostly pillow cases and it means that you can’t really wash it, because it might come undone, which means you can’t really use it …
I have several pieces that need to be framed. I have one piece – it was all done in half stitches – was a sunset on a smokey lake, very surreal, and when I brought it home to show it off, Mom took it from me and said – I have the perfect spot for that – and hung it up outside her bedroom.
I’ve never been able to get it back from her. It’s been 10 years…
(You have to anchor/knot those threads down really well when you do pillow cases and such.)
yeah, I know from finding stuff mom made for her hope chest back in the 1950s — still in pretty good condition despite periodic use all these years. Mine won’t stand up to that 🙂 then again, I’m not sure I’d necessarily want to put that stuff on my own bed. My style is a little different now, lol.
I have things my grandmother made over the years. I cherish them but I do NOT see them on my bed in the near future. I also have the things she (and my MIL and my MIL’s mother) made my son when he was a baby. Someday, if he has children, he’ll get them… then. But not before.
Wow! This is beautiful Zee! I thought I did cross stitch but now, I think I did something more akin to kindergarten stitch, lol. When I was in uni I bought a new pair of jeans and I LOVED them. Really, really loved them (not usual for me to find ones that a) I liked; b) fit; and c) could afford) Well, had them about two weeks and ripped the leg wide open hopping a fence. I weeped. I wailed. I pouted. I cross stitched a lilacs and violets scene on the leg and thought I was hot snot. A couple of friends asked where I got my jeans 🙂 Yeah, this has completely dated me cuz no one in the last couple of decades would LIKE flowers cross stitched on jeans, lol. Looking at this gorgeous piece I’m laughing at my silly jeans 🙂 They held up in the wash though 🙂
When I was thin… oh yeah, I’d love cross stitched stuff on my jeans!!! When my brother got married, I cross stitched 25 birdseed bags. Only 25. There was a fight over them. I think I kept one….