#peredhel triptych

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Day 38

Another stripe done!

This day: 37 min

Total time: 44 hrs, 12 min

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Day 33

Slooowly filling in the confetti stitches.

This day: 49 min

Total time: 39 hrs, 56 min

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I decided to take on an extremely ambitious cross stitching project: to create a triptych out of three works of art by Jian Guo:

a sudden in love

light of Earendil

lament of Evening Star

And I decided that I would create this blog to document the process, both to give myself a record of my work and also to maybe provide some motivation in knowing that others are maybe watching my progress. (Though I suspect I will mostly be my own audience.)

The first step was receiving permission from the artist to use his works to create stitching patterns. Still to do in the preparation is to create the actual patterns, make a final decision on fabric (right now I'm leaning towards gray 20-count Aida), and then obtain all the supplies I need.

I will be talking about the preparation some here, sporadically as I work on it. Once I start stitching, my plan is to post pictures of each project after each time I work on it, thus logging my progress.

If you're reading this, thanks for coming along on my journey!

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Day 48

This day: 38 minutes

Total time: 51 hours, 22 minutes

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Day 47

This day: 39 minutes

Total time: 50 hours, 44 minutes

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Day 46

This day: 33 minutes

Total time: 50 hours, 5 minutes

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Day 45

I took some time to re-do the edge bindings because I realized that part of the reason the fabric was so loose in the rolaframe was because the ribbon binding was adding a lot of bulk to just the edges. So I took that off the sides and blanket stitched the edges instead. Not counting that in my stitching time or days though.

The fabric is still looser than I’d prefer in the frame, but better than before.

This day: 45 minutes

Total time: 49 hrs, 32 minutes

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Day 44

I apparently missed a picture and post, because there was more stitching done when I picked up today than there was in the last picture (which is the last picture I have). Whoops. I’m going to estimate an hour for that work (which is probably an undercount, to be honest).

Also—I finally found a stitching frame large enough to hold this! Upside: I don’t have to worry about crushing stitches in the future, and I can rest the frame over a gap instead of having to hold the whole thing in one hand. Downside: the cloth is a lot looser in the frame than I usually keep it, so it’s a bit more annoying to work.

This day: 38 min

Total time: 48 hrs, 47 min