He is sooo cute! The
piece turns out so well, but I do have to say that the pattern was the worst
pattern I've ever worked with. Very hard
to read. Hand-drawn symbols, and the
back-stitching lines sometimes blend into the grid -lines. I am glad to be done with it. Good thing it turns out so well, that it was
actually worth it. I'm thinking this one
will be the first that I am going to try the lacing method for mounting. I may have to get a mat specially cut to the
exact size needed to border the stitched area.
Once it is mounted, I'll have to measure it to see.
I've also started gridding up the Tree Frog project
today. It is pretty easy as long as I
have something white behind the black fabric.
Waiting on the stretcher bars I ordered for it to arrive, so until then,
I'm just working on the grid... and the tutorial.
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| Max's Moon finished |
I also got around to prep-ing the small Bloom project from C-SN May 2011:
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| small Bloom stock photo |
I used the ez-count guidline that I pulled from Max's
Moon to grid this piece.
I've decided to first try it with basic white aida and pick out my own DMC colors. I chose 989, 791, 922, 891, 208, and 726. I'll see how it turns out. Then I'll try it on linen with over-dyed floss. I have 2 pieces of Cashel on order, in lavender and a pretty light green. I'll be adding the specialty floss to my next order.
Took me less than 10 min to do. Normally you go across and back once with each piece, which makes it really easy to pull out when you're done, but being such a small project, I used a single strand for each axis. If you are interested in seeing how the guideline is installed, I took a few pictures of the steps, and am planning on doing up a tutorial soon.
I've decided to first try it with basic white aida and pick out my own DMC colors. I chose 989, 791, 922, 891, 208, and 726. I'll see how it turns out. Then I'll try it on linen with over-dyed floss. I have 2 pieces of Cashel on order, in lavender and a pretty light green. I'll be adding the specialty floss to my next order.
I don't know how you made Max's moon look so good! The colors for me look all wrong...the stump on the bottom right is like a dark green color instead of brown :/
ReplyDeleteIt has been a really long time since I prepped this kit, so can't quite remember if the sorting and matching colors to symbols was easy or not. I'm really sorry to hear you are having trouble with the colors. Working with the hand-drawn pattern was enough of a hassle. I remember I had just stitched a whole section of the color for the heart symbol, except it was actually supposed to be the color for the upside-down heart symbol. Not a good day for me. How far along are you?
DeleteOh I've had that happen too many times, especially with another one I'm working on that has four different color yellows. I'm probably about a third of the way done with Max's Moon. I've been taking a break from it for a bit because of the difficulty I've had with the colors. I thought if I got more done, it would be easier to figure out which colors are which, but no luck.
DeleteI would be to happy to create a floss swatch card with the leftover floss from Max's Moon and send it to you. If you think it would be helpful, just send me your address via e-mail.
DeleteOh my gosh that is so nice of you!! But I couldn't ask you to do that for me...
DeleteIt truly wouldn't be any problem at all... so if you change your mind, just let me know. And always, happy stitching!
DeleteWell thank you! Actually, if at all possible, would you be able to take a photo of the chart you used for it? It sounds like the one I have is different.
DeleteSure, what e-mail do you want me to send it to?
DeleteMy e-mail is slseeger@yahoo.com. Thanks so much! :)
DeletePictures are on way.
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