New Baby Cross Stitch

karen66 · Post by **karen66** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:35 pm

Hi Julie,I absolutly love the sepia samplers and I also really like the 'coloured'ones too. I have to say that the sepia are more subtle and would be lovely on display even when the babe is alot bigger,whereas I feel that the coloured samplers would unfortunatley find there way into cupboards/drawers

Rose · Post by **Rose** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:39 am

I like them both about the same it just depends on the person I would be making it for. They both have a very soft feel to them.

JuliaM · Post by **JuliaM** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:09 pm

Re: New Baby Cross Stitch

tiffstitch · Post by **tiffstitch** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:10 pm

Re: New Baby Cross Stitch

JuliaM · Post by **JuliaM** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:42 pm

Hi Tiffany. I think you have raised an interesting point about â€œold and modern at the same timeâ€. Maybe it’s because the sepia tones fit in very well with modern decor; but the romantic treatment of the subject matter, like the first photographs, echoes decades past?

Athalie · Post by **Athalie** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:46 pm

I stitched a sepia toned birth sampler for one of my grandsons and everyone who has seen it prefer it to the coloured ones I did for the first two boys. I have a lot of very old sepia photographs of my grandparents and have always loved the tones in them.

JuliaM · Post by **JuliaM** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:44 pm

Hi Athalie. Yes I know exactly what you mean about old sepia photos. They have a lovely quality and atmosphere about them.

ayna · Post by **ayna** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:30 pm

I've recently finished my first sepia cross stitch - a mother giraffe nuzzling the neck of her baby ( I did it for DH who is also very tall). It looks stunning so the sepia baby ones would be my choice. Mine was also a Vervaco. The only drawback for the stitcher is the similarity of many of the `colours', very easy to make a mistake which can take some time to see and correct.

JuliaM · Post by **JuliaM** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:52 pm

Yes Ayna I agree that is one big problem with the subtle shadings: it is just so easy to miss a mistake before it becomes a real pest to correct.

vervaco_lanarte · Post by **vervaco_lanarte** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:33 pm

Fun fact about the baby with the teddybears:

While in the design stages, the bears' facial expressions had to be changed when it became apparent that everyone who saw the design felt like the bears were looking a little too threatening, more like zombie bears than cute and fluffy teddybears.

This, of course, lead to a great deal of fun among the designers and the people involved in the production process (i.e. myself included).

JuliaM · Post by **JuliaM** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:28 pm

How interesting to hear some of the background to the design. It was certainly worth the effort to get it just right.