The Jews are beginning to show up and realize what side they are on. Stephen Frys’ embracing his Judaism. His mothers family left Germany in the 30s’, even on his fathers side, there are some Jews. As someone who embraces every Jew who isn’t a Hamas loving antisemite – I’ll just say this – he is so smart and bright -there has to be some Jewish there. I know, what a racist thing to say – I can live with that.
My Hanukkah gift from Joel arrived, a gold Magen David necklace, for size, next to a nickel. Love it, I have a number of stars, but I’ll be wearing this one for a while.
I am completely done with the stitching!!!! It is gorgeous, it was worth the 9 months to get here!
A few days ago I was here.
This is MarkupXP at the end. Says I still have 249 stitches to do. I don’t, I love using this program, but I know when I’m finished. If some stitches didn’t get marked, or were mismarked – so be it. I’m not wasting my time to make the program get to 100%. Its a tool, the important thing is that the actual stitching is done.
Some closeups. I was watching the floss tube from Jean at The Attic. She was talking about stitching words over one on 40 or 46 count linen. Perfect timing!!! Her suggestion, tent stitch. Which means just one stitch, not the full cross, I made sure to angle the tent stitch in the direction of the top of my crosses.
Beautiful, legible and not hard. Something to remember if I decide to do another chart that asks for Over one. Btw, when I stitch, it is over two threads. If you look at the red flower here, you can clearly see how the cross is over a little box made up of two across and two high. Look closely at my name and you’ll see it is smaller. Ahh, learning tricks of the trade.
Here is the back. Another thing Jean said – the backs of so many of these antique samplers are a mess. Mine is not a mess at all, but it also does not need to be as neat as the front. This will be framed and no one will see the back.
Here is a close up of the main tower, it is probably neater than the bottom, because I was early on in my stitching, but I changing direction and left longer tails and I’m perfectly fine with it.
The front of the tower, it is beautiful, I am pleased.
I love these birds. Have just ordered another chart that has beautiful birds. It is a sampler, I think I am just going to stitch the birds.
A lovely flower, I should have changed the outer petal to a darker color. There are a few places in the work that just don’t quite show up because of lack of contrast. Then I remind myself, no one will stare that closely at my work.
Just some lovely details.
That little image above the tower? Originally it was a swatika – I changed it. Although this is called Solomons Temple it looks very Indian to me, and the Swastika was a Hindu symbol. But not one I will ever use.
This was before I washed and ironed it. I will probably iron it one more time before I lace it to a board. I will do the lacing then I will take it to the framers, also, no glass.
Leah