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box_camera) wrote2012-11-27 11:36 am
box_camera) wrote2012-11-27 11:36 am
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the never-ending Very Large Cross Stitch is FINISHED
AND IT'S PRETTY AWESOME.
Stitching all the pink for Mexico/Central America/South America was tedious as fuuuuck. I'm really pleased with how it looks on the darker fabric (I usually use ivory fabric, this is parchment), it adds to the feel of an old map.
I bought this pattern at the Quarter Stitch in New Orleans during Christmas of 2009. I started working on it in early spring of 2010, shortly after I moved to Louisiana. I finished it last Saturday. Whew! That does not represent continuous work, however. Several times I put it aside to work on something else, usually because I got a seething case of what Phil calls "the I hate its".
I'm not going to put this under glass, instead I'm going to stretch it over corkboard and staple it from the back, then add a ribbon so it can be hung. That way we can add a pin every hurricane season for any hurricanes that make landfall anywhere on the map.
I'm letting Mom hang it behind the bar for now, but I'm not giving it to her permanently. At some point I'm going to want it back, although I may let her keep it for years. I may at some point make another one, but I doubt I'll have the stomach for that for a looooong time.
Stitching all the pink for Mexico/Central America/South America was tedious as fuuuuck. I'm really pleased with how it looks on the darker fabric (I usually use ivory fabric, this is parchment), it adds to the feel of an old map.
I bought this pattern at the Quarter Stitch in New Orleans during Christmas of 2009. I started working on it in early spring of 2010, shortly after I moved to Louisiana. I finished it last Saturday. Whew! That does not represent continuous work, however. Several times I put it aside to work on something else, usually because I got a seething case of what Phil calls "the I hate its".
I'm not going to put this under glass, instead I'm going to stretch it over corkboard and staple it from the back, then add a ribbon so it can be hung. That way we can add a pin every hurricane season for any hurricanes that make landfall anywhere on the map.
I'm letting Mom hang it behind the bar for now, but I'm not giving it to her permanently. At some point I'm going to want it back, although I may let her keep it for years. I may at some point make another one, but I doubt I'll have the stomach for that for a looooong time.