This is the first picture I've posted of this project. It's a custom chart ,by HAED, of my daughter's bridal bouquet. It's done on 28 ct white opalescent lugana, 1x1, full cross. I just have the top row left, which is 2 large and 2 very small partial pages. This will be about 15x11 inches with just under 77000 stitches.
It's taken a while to want to put up a picture, because it didn't seem like it looked like much except colored blobs until recently. The reason for this, besides the work being very magnified and close to my eyes, is that when I asked the photographer to take a good picture of the bouquet for stitching purposes, she got artistic, and did a good close-up. But a close-up puts the closer flowers in focus, and the lower and outer flowers slightly blurry or out of focus. Which looks great in a photo because the eye sees and the brain perceives a whole bouquet. But translating that to stitching seems trickier, and most of my beginning stitching on this was the bottom and sides, the blurry part, and it looked like blobs. (No fault of the charting) Now that I'm further along and stepping away, I'm very pleased with it.
I've been working exclusively on it since November, and hoping to have it done in April. I really enjoy working on it, but I sure miss my other projects in my rotation and can't wait to get back to them!! After years of having always done one project at a time, this reminds me of why I now like doing a rotation.
It looks like a painted.
