Dimensions- Elegant Kimono(Update 07/07/11) DONE!

[Nachstenliebe]

Beautiful work!! I'd love to have a silk komono like that
Faith

[Busy_B]

[dollystitcher]

Stunning work, you have done so well with this and you are so close to finishing

[Mumof3]

Very pretty design and lovely stitching

[Juel]

It's impressive how fast you stitch!
Looks so lovely

[clockwork]

I haven't been able to update this in forever! My husband accidentally broke my camera upload software with an update so I've got the pictures but can't get them up here for now. I'll be visiting family today and if I can get my camera onto a flash drive, I'll have pictures this afternoon. I'm done through the backstitching! Just the band at the bottom and the background left to do!

[Parksfarm]

Gosh, this is so pretty - you're doing a beautiful job on it!

[clockwork]

Ok, rescued the pictures off my camera!

[gyork]

fantastic, love it

[Rose]

Beautiful!!!!!

[tiffstitch]

Beautiful!!!

[Parksfarm]

Gorgeous!

[Fljotsdale]

What a lovely thing! SO pretty! Lovely work, Clockwork!

[Mabel Figworthy]

So pretty and beautifully worked!

[clockwork]

WORST UPDATER EVER!

Sorry guys, I ended up being away from the internet for a while and when I got back I totally forgot I had started this thread.

KIMONO IS DONE!



I've also done a few other things since.



I ended up changing this one just a little, in the chart her stomach is blue. I made her a little more naked.

and



This one was actually part of a sampler but I don't care for samplers (and this one looked to be mostly huge boring blocks of color), so I just stitched the middle bit.

And now for my current project that I won't be SALing because I'm apparently really bad at updating, the Kinkade Disney Snow White project thing, with bonus second attempt at gridding!



So far it just looks like a pair of angry trees, but I'm enjoying it. I think I have a thing for cabins in the woods. I'm still not sure that gridding is for me. I don't really find myself consulting it but I suppose if it saves me from even one mistake before I'm done, then it was worth it.

TIP FOR GRIDDERS!!!: Measuring is more accurate AND faster than counting. Take a bit of scrap paper, lay it on your fabric, count out one block of ten, mark the paper at each end of the ten block, use that to grid! Or, they probably make special rulers for that... but if your fabric is shrunken or something, as long as it's the same all the way through, the count won't be wrong! And if you're really worried, counting between the lines to double check is still easier than counting it out the first time!

[rcperryls]

the kimono is beautiful, as is the mermaid.
I hope you will post now and again your progress on Snow White. It looks like you have had a really good start.
and thanks for the gridding tip.

Carole

[gyork]

wow the kimono is fantastic looks good enough to wear, your other projects are great too, please update us on snow White, even if it's just pictures as it looks great so far

[Raine]

[Busy_B]

Great finishes! It looks like the Thomas Kinkade Disney patterns are getting popular on the board. Are you doing the larger or smaller one?

[suleigh]

Wow all looking amazing