The other day, I realized the girl and bunny piece I've been working on will be the first nothing-but-stitches I've done. My mother, on the other hand, did a lot of them, including
SOLID STITCHING. No fabric showing. It's very likely that this piece has been mentioned here before, and may be again, but I often look up at it and shake my head. That's how she was: the more complicated and detailed, the better. The first piece she ever did was of a cottage surrounded by a large garden on 22-count fabric. Who chooses 22 on purpose? For the first time you try something ? And I can promise you that the backs of all her pieces were as neat as a pin.
Me, I got the courage to try to de-grid my fox. (In our old and oft-used 13x9x2 pan.) Here is the beginning:
My trepidation made me think of what knitters must feel when steeking for the first time.
An hour in:
It's working! But is all the "melting" color going to leave stains?
Forty-five minutes more, and
it's clean and clear! Amazing. I have gone back today and rinsed out this colors on the edge. This is bound for framing, and needs to be blank all the way around. I have hope for the same result with the aforementioned girl and bunny.
2 comments:
Hooray! It looks terrific!
The first project I ever attempted was an entire fill project of that unicorn in the garden tapestry thing that's so famous. There were 50 pages of chart. I got about an inch in and said the heck with it. Your mother's Mona Lisa is spectacular. Sometimes I watch people do those entire fill projects on Tik Tok and I don't know how they do it. Their brains must work differently than mine.
Your fox is just adorable and I'm so happy to hear that the grid washes out. I hope mines does too when the time comes.
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