I’m on a roll, finishing all the things. A quilt, and now a pretty big cross stitch project. Its’ not fully finished, as in no frame yet, that will happen soon.
Done, this was interesting, I made some changes, because its’ my project.First of all, light blue linen. Which meant changing some of the thread colors
I absolutely loved stitching the little houses, I think this is what attracted me to the project, aside from the quaker blocks, there is something very southing about them.
Here are the two remaining rabbits as well as the goose. I had to frog most of this section and still had problems. They will remain, someone will need a magnifying glass to find the mishaps – and if they do, more power to them.
I am also very glad I went with blue letters.
As well as introducing the purple stars. In the original the stars were blue. Here is one quaker that isn’t symmetrical, I’m pretty sure all the rest are. And oh those bees, one doesn’t need four rabbits, but if you are putting in bees, you need quite a few to maintain the hive.
That pink bouquet of flowers feels very out of place, as if it were an after thought to fill in space. The pink is a new color and in the original pattern it was forgotten. Luckily Lilas’ studio corrected on their website
, so that was easy to fix. But, it wasn’t the same pink as the dusty rose – I just went into my stash and pulled a pink, which I then repeated in a couple of other places – like the twin rabbits – just so it wouldn’t feel so starkly different
Sheep, butterfly and another bee!
Did I mention I love the houses?? There was an option to make the white border with half stitches, or with satin stitch. I opted for the satin stitch and I hated it. I was of course counting threads, and it didn’t go smoothly.
I may not have enjoyed the process
, I do however really like the end result. A different texture makes the otherwise un-noticable white – really pop.And here are my initials.
Close up of houses!
Such cute house. Making the checkerboard basket was fun. The handle was a pain – a lot of frogging. I got to the point where I had to work both colors at the same time.
I know, my macro lens gets very fuzzy very quickly. Look at those stitches! I’ll never see them that magnified again.
Now for the back. I was taught that the back should be neat. In my opinion there is a difference between neat and identical to the front. To me this is completely acceptable.
I’m sure someone would disagree – they can make their own samplers.
At some point soon this will be framed and no one will see the back at all!
Leah