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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.

Oh my word, that is absolutely gorgeous.
It looks just like a photo so the chart must de done very well. Glad you are persevering with and the rest of the rotation can wait until you are ready.

wow, that is amazing It looks like a painted.

What a magnificent project you have taken on and to do that amount of fine stitching in this short time is truly amazing.

What a beautiful momento of your daughters wedding. A HUGE WELL DONE

This is absolutely stunning!! And you have stitched it so beautifully and made amazing progress!! The colors and the detail are truly fantastic and this will be a wonderful memory of a special occasion.

Carole

Stunning is the only word for this! Just stunning! Great job!

Wow! Absolutely beautiful. The colours are amazing and such a wonderful keepsake of your daughters wedding.

Omg that is amazing, design and stitching.

I never really thought haed did "custom" in that sense, ie based on something real I just thought they did minis or was etc of existing or others from designers artwork.

The bouquet is beautiful, and what a wonderful, creative idea!

Midge wrote:Oh my word, that is absolutely gorgeous.
It looks just like a photo so the chart must de done very well. Glad you are persevering with and the rest of the rotation can wait until you are ready.

I absolutely agree!!!

This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces I've seen. This will truly be an heirloom piece and one of a kind. I wish I could have watched this one come to life earlier. How fitting, though, with Spring quickly approaching, that we are seeing updates now. Thank you for sharing your picture!!!

Just finished this . It took about 5 months. Now to get it washed, ironed and framed. I'm going to have to experiment on a corner of the fabric to see how it withstands that. I'm concerned about the opalescent strand that runs thru the fabric.

WOW that is just fabulous, what a truly wonderful picture you have created. Amazing work something that will kept as an heirloom I 'm sure. Well done for all your hours of stitching which has created this stunning work

It looks really amazing. Well done (though that feels a bit weak in the face of what you've achieved). I really do like it.

I'll be interested to know how the opalescent strands withstand ironing too, my two current projects are on the same fabric.

Regards,

Richard.

That looks beautiful, and what a lovely memento of a special day

That is absolutely beautiful (understatement)!!!! An amazing memory forever. The image is practically 3 D. I think I can just about smell the fragrance of the flowers. Congratulations on an awesome job!

Carole

Wow this absolutely beautiful. Well done!!

Oh WOW What an awesome picture that is and stitched so lovingly and beautifully it looks life like. A huge WELL DONE.

This is absolutely beautiful. The fabric you have chosen for this makes it perfect!

That is really incredibly beautiful! Congratulations on a wonderful finish! What a spectacular project!