Cross stitch finish! ah, Coffee…
May 22, 2006 by admin
Filed under Home & Living
This piece has been a comedy of errors. All blame is mine, as I appear to suffer from an inability to count properly when tired. The hat is slightly off, a few stitches are done in the wrong colors, and when it came time to backstitch the coffee cup, I did it in dark blue instead of dark brown because I was too lazy to go find the brown. I did purposefully stitch the dashed line in gold braid because I thought it would be prettier than if done in brown floss. The border? The border is not part of the pattern. You’ll note the bottom edge– I mis-counted where I needed to start the piece, and the whole thing is a few squares too far south on the cloth. The border is to ensure the fabric doesn’t unravel before I figure out how I’m going to finish this. My husband commented that I really have a hard time letting go of a piece, and that is largely true. I was thinking this might need more sparkle, or perhaps some beads. I’m so irritated with all the minor mistakes however, that I find I’m able to let it go quite easily. And without further ado:
It looks great.
Random bystander wouldn’t notice anything odd or wrong, and neither do I.
Hi! thanks for the nice comment
I am probably my own worst critic…
*g*
Yep. You see, if one does not know the chart, they won’t notice errors, unless they’re very very major. And I don’t notice anything wrong. And I don’t know the chart. All set
Congrats for your finish!
Thanks
Now to get back to the needlecase, and Egyptian Sampler. I’ve been avoiding those due to the ‘counting problem’ I’ve been having. heh
I also have counting problem. I use color pencils to mark the charts with, helps quite a lot.
nice work!
Coffee is magic is in my “works to be done” list… where there are almost all Dragon Dreams patterns LOL
I was thinking about stitching it for a charity project I am running with some friends.
I like a lot your blog
bye
Thankyou for the lovely comment, Meg.
I have the Christmyth series on my “list” of projects I want to stitch. There are a couple of her larger projects that I want to buy some day, but I should stitch all the big ones I already have first. LOL!
I am stitching Moonlight Guardian, one of DD larger’s patterns. It is fantastic, but it needs so much time and I have so few…
If you want to see my progress you can have a look here:
http://www.fantasymeg.com/pcroce/lavoricorso.html
I don’t like too much the look of the page and I am working on it, but the photos are them
bye
I really like the sparkle on the dragon. Sparkle and shiny is good
This kitty on the clothesline made me laugh:
http://www.fantasymeg.com/pcroce/2004/4.jpg
yes the kitty is very funny! but full of half stitches so it was quite busy to be stitched…
the sparkle of Moonlight Dragon is a fantastic Kreinik thread. I am fond with that color!!!
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