Tuesday, December 15, 2009

A Lovely Finish (finally!)

If you're a cousin of mine, don't give my in-laws the link to this, I want it to be a surprise. (It's unliklely my in-laws would read this page before Christmas... I think. I hope.) Anyway, finished a MAJOR big project. This is Lavender & Lace's "Angel of Hope". My father in law showed me the pattern a few years (like three?) ago, and said that he just liked the picture, he wasn't planning on stitching it or anything. I might have mentioned that I was familiar with the pattern, and went home and started it immediately at full size. I didn't like the way it was going, so in 2006, while recovering from surgery, I started again, but smaller. It's supposed to be stitched 2 over 2 on 32ct linen (or over 1 on 16ct). This is 2 over 1 on 32ct linen (2 because it's all half-cross stitches, and two strands gave the right amount of coverage). So, instead of being a wall-eating 16 x 24 when framed, this photo is only slightly smaller than actual size (I guess that depends on the size of your monitor, too - mine's 17" diagonal).


I'm really impressed with the way it came out, and while I won't have it framed for Christmas, I'll be rolling it up carefully to give to my in-laws, with frame to follow roughly mid-February. Yay!

4 comments:

  1. I am sure they will love it, it's beautiful

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  2. The angel turned out to be BEAUTIFUL! Nice job!

    Congrats on the new appliances. They look wonderful.

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  3. So, what'll you give me to keep this secret?

    I'm just sayin' I've seen a pink mannequin, and it seemed pretty nice.

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  4. When you have a finish, you have a finish. That is beautiful. I tried hard to get a better look at the tiny stitches.

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