Rosemary's 2015 progress - Update Dec 18

[Carole]

He is gorgeous! Congrats on a beautiful finish

[lavenderbee]

That's fantastic, very well done. You have put a lot of work into that beautiful creature with so many similar colours. It is exquisite.

[rcperryls]

Congratulations on a beautiful and perfectly stitched finish!! The Cheetah is amazing. So lifelike and so much detail!

Carole

[karen4bells]

Congrats on a wonderful finish

[AlwaysGoofy]

What a beautiful finish on the Cheetah. You've inspired me to try to work towards a finish soon.

[Serinde]

That Cheetah is fabulous. Well done!

[vanessanjf]

Congratulations on a fantastic finish

[Allyn]

[RosemaryD]

Thank you very much for all the kind comments. I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out and I think it is going to become the first project I get framed, might even make it onto the wall of the house I'm trying to buy.

You've inspired me to try to work towards a finish soon.

Good luck! The best thing about a finish for me is I can start something new - my rule is no more than three WIPs.

Rosemary

[fccs]

Spectacular finish and he should definitely have a place on the wall!

[RosemaryD]

So having finished a project I've allowed myself a new start, a Golden Kite chart of a painting by Albert Bierstadt - The Shore of the Turquoise Sea.

Original and progress so far:





I'm stitching 2 over 1 on 22ct which is a lower count than I usually like but the highest I've found I can sensibly use with 2 strands, which I have to with all the blended threads. I do like the result though - no pain, no gain!

[rcperryls]

A stunning start!! This is a beautiful painting and is going to be an exquisite piece! I am hoping for lots of updates. (off to find one of those magic benches to pull over so I can sit and watch.

Carole

[AlwaysGoofy]

What a beautiful new start. I can't believe how much progress you've made so far. Thank you for sharing.

[Squirrel]

You have made a great start on this lovely painting. Looking forward to more updates.

[tiffstitch]

Beautiful start on a gorgeous piece.

[richardandtracy]

That will be quite spectacular when finished. It is a gorgeous image, so beautifully realised.

Thinking about future stitching with blending, could you not use 2 threads with tent stitching over 28ct, rather than full crosses? I'm not using blending with my current project, but it is 2 over 1 on 28ct tent stitch. The coverage is quite good, and you could probably go to 32ct if you really want to up the numbers.

Regards,

Richard

[RosemaryD]

Thinking about future stitching with blending, could you not use 2 threads with tent stitching over 28ct, rather than full crosses?

Yes I considered that but I prefer full cross for the coverage (although I can see yours does have good coverage) and also was concerned that single stitches of a colour, of which there are a lot, might get hidden and I might lose detail. I spent ages deciding how I was going to do it - hobbies shouldn't cause sleepless nights should they?

[Mabel Figworthy]

That wave looks almost translucent, what a beautiful picture -- looking forward to seeing it stitched!

[Lulu22]

What a lovely image fantastic start

[RosemaryD]

A bit more done on Tree of Life:



And the whole thing so far:



It was so nice (and much quicker) to go back to stitching with one strand after all the blended threads in the Turquoise Sea. I know blends give a better result but I am just not that keen on multiple strand stitching!

Thanks for looking.