goodnightmoonvale replied to your photo “It is the ninth of May. THE NINTH. OF MAY. We are TWO MONTHS into...”
Look, I'd rather have a polar vortex now than a -40 one in January
You make a compelling point but I remain mad about it. :D
geekgirl76 replied to your photo “It is the ninth of May. THE NINTH. OF MAY. We are TWO MONTHS into...”
Yikes! Bad time to tell you I actually have the starting of a tan, up here in Edmonton, then.
Yeah, but you have to live in Edmonton, you deserve a tan for that.
synebluetoo replied to your photo “Well, it took all winter and some of spring, and got held up by a...”
It's very important to have at least one mistake in any string project- stitching or knitting or anything, because evil can only travel in straight lines. Therefore you must fumble at least one stitch so it cannot be cursed.
LOL, that’s what I thought when I made Egregious Mistake Number One. It started to feel like a weird justification, as I went on :D
spaci1701 replied to your photo “Well, it took all winter and some of spring, and got held up by a...”
That's really awesome! I've never even thought of doing all the back stitching of a pattern first - I can see how it would really make the colours easier to fill in. I don't think I could do it that way but it's a brilliant idea.
Yeah I have to admit it was not easy. I also started from the top corner like a heretic, but I’ve never been able to figure out the advantage of starting in the middle, so.
i-ddpej replied to your photo “Well, it took all winter and some of spring, and got held up by a...”
Out of curiosity, how are you doing your half stitches? Just the usual cross-stitch way, with short vertical lines on the backside? If so, you should know that you'll probably need to put some effort into blocking it at the end to get it back to square. (I ask because it looks like it might already be warping out of square, with the bottom-left/top-right corners being wide and the top-left/bottom-right corners being acute. It's a typical result of wide-scale halfs.)
Good to know! Some of what you’re seeing is based on the angle I was holding the camera (poor, but I’d already put the thing back in the hoop by the time I realized it) but I wouldn’t be surprised if it does have some distortion. It still has wrinkles from the excess being folded up and clipped while I worked on the hoop, too, so blocking would need to happen anyway.
Gonna have to google how to do blocking eventually. :D
sagedarkwoods replied to your photo “Well, it took all winter and some of spring, and got held up by a...”
Dear gods that's gorgeous. The snakeskin shoes even!
Those motherfucking shoes nearly did me in. The lower shoe was the last thing I did before backtracking for the bits I’d skipped because I thought I was badly fucking them up (I wasn’t, but I needed time to see that) and it was a Real Moment.
