Finished!

[fiercebunny]

I've at last got that huge-ass cross stitch project finished.




This is what it looks like now...


A closeup of the faces. The guy has a strange receding hairline, no? I got rid of the mullet though (just added extra sky and clouds in its place)


a closeup of the beading on the skirt


thank jebus it's done with! I can't quite believe that I had the patience to do all of that. Now the scary part of taking it to the framers...

cross-posted to the cross_stitch comm.

Comments

[brennye.livejournal.com]

Oh my she's beautiful!! Absoluting stunning. I can't believe you got it done either! *laugh* BRAVO!! *wolf whistles* BRAVO!

and on sober reflection.. he looks MUCH better without the mullet, you were right. You should get a top three placing on it next year if you enter it. hopefully they'll forget the same piece won last year. ;)

*cheers again just because*

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you for the compliments! *takes bow* And yeah, this is going to get submitted whether those judges remember the other one or not ;)

[tsuminaki.livejournal.com]

It looks wonderful! I don't know too much about cross stitch but it must have been a lot of work. >< Very impressive!

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! It was pretty easy to do actually, just time consuming ^_^

[mythosidhe.livejournal.com]

Beautiful job! I especially like the beading-- my needlework pieces always end up covered in beads :p

I think once I've burned out my obsessive freak for crochet I'm finally going to buy a cross stitch pattern. I love satin stitch, but freehand embroidery can be excruciatingly aggravating...hence the nearly two months that have passed since I worked on my 'current' project.

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It took a while for me to get used to beading, in a few spots they're a bit too bunched together, but I like the end effect.

I wish I enjoyed crochet or knitting. A friend tried to teach me, but I could never get the hang of it. I'd like to learn ribbon embroidery, but that, along with freehand, looks really difficult.

[mythosidhe.livejournal.com]

I've never tried knitting, but crocheting, at least the the kind that I do, is pretty easy; but then, for now I'm only using the most basic chain stitch, pretty much just straight lines back and forth :p I'll probably work my way up to something more complicated eventually, but for the time being this is sufficient for the scarf and blanket I'm working on.

I bought a book on ribbon embroidery, though I haven't attempted it yet. I don't know that it looks difficult so much as time consuming. You have to sew down every stitch you make with the ribbon with regular thread to make sure it stays where it's supposed to be...headache in the making! I'm going to try to include some in the Marie Antoinette piece I really should finish some time soon, so I'll probably post on the results once I get to that part.