Well, I got almost half the background done and ran out of floss. It's my favorite purple (154), so it seems stupid that I didn't have an extra skein around. Oh well. I'm hoping to get to the store tomorrow, but I really like the way the purple is making it pop.Wish I'd chosen a different color for the flowers, or done them in half-stitches, but oh well. This one had a lot of mistakes and things I had to work around. Maybe someday I'll make another and it will be perfect (ha, like that will happen).
In the meantime I've been working on my first kitschy transfer piece! I have a big thing for mermaids, and strong feelings that they wouldn't have pink skin or red hair. Here she is so far.
Meanwhile my mom is is Italy, taking pictures of things she feels would make excellent cross-stitch patterns (and cats lounging on statues).
I think the color of the flowers works; there's enough contrast in the values between them and the background.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it looks bad, but I keep imagining it with cream or white half stitches in the flowers, or done in the same dark purple but with the stitches facing the opposite way.
DeleteOh I love how the backwork is looking! Mind you, I liked it plenty without the purple but yes, it's making it pop so nice.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I think with this series I'll have dark colors in the background of each piece, but it would be neat to do a lighter series, maybe in a smaller scale.
DeleteAs someone who's crafted forever (embroidery, knitting, beadwork... the short list >.>), but only just discovered blackwork, I recently stumbled upon one of your blackwork posts. THEN reading back through months of your blogs I discovered that a) you're a pratchett fan, b) a father ted fan c) a subversive cross stitcher (with the BEST subversive quotes ever) and d) that you're the same genius who stitched the DMC colour grid (and spiral).
ReplyDeleteSo after all of this reading, I've decided you're definitely my favourite person on the internet.
Aw, thank you so much!!! I try my best. Sometimes I feel like the laziest crafter ever, or get blocked in terms of ideas, and comments like this really help.
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