Lisa's Stitchery Doo Corner ~ Pirates FINISHED!!!!

[~threadbear~]

Lisa, you've done loads on this! You really are whizzing along. well done!

[Rose]

It is wonderful. So full of action. Sorry aboutt your wrist take care of it.

[Sarah Gixxer]

You're making great progress, Lisa, there's loads done since I last looked!

Sorry to hear about your wrist, I hope it soon feels better.

[Mabel Figworthy]

Sorry to hear about the wrist -- but golly you've made quick progress on this!

[coffee_freak]

hope your wrist feels better!
great progess

[Slinky]

I'm late to this thread - your pirate ship is fantastic!! The Cut Thru's are bittersweet projects I found (did the Gypsy Wagon recently). The colours and detailing are a joy to work with, and the design lends itself so easily to doing a little bit here, alittle bit there - there is so much variety. But I found the backstitching a pain in the bum frankly.

How are you getting along with the dual chart thing? I abandoned the cross stitch-only chart and worked only from the backstitching chart. And I struggled too with the lack of overlap between pages.

Best of luck, it's a great design.

X

[Lisa]

thanks everyone!!

im liking the dual chart, i colour in the background and then refer to the backstich one and highlight the lines ive done. some of the symbols though dissapear under the back stitch lines so I found it a lot easier to use both charts.

the back stich was great, all lined up with the holes until i got to the pirates face/beard, i had to make all new holes. I may get a sharper needle for backstitch, what number shall i get??

[Lisa]

never leave a 2yr old alone in the room with your and a wax crayon



it looks a lot worse in real life!!

[irishstitcher]

oh shite! will it be covered over by sewing?

[Lisa]

im hoping the sail will cover the majority!!! and if doesnt, and it wont wash out, I will tell Shaun his sister wanted to contribute, she looked sooo proud of herself though!

[irishstitcher]

Ah how cute!! Ah sure she wouldnt understand at all prob thought she was doing great!! The backstitch looks great...

[biggrins]

It's starting to look great! Bummer about the extra design added to it!!

[kerbear879]

YIKES!! Well at least you know what you are going to do if it can't be covered up! Hopefully it will all come out okay in the end.

[SusanF]

Oh no Lisa that's a nightmare Has it touched any of the stitching or is it all on the fabric?

[Lisa]

yep theres some on the sail, but shes smudged it so it looks like a light shade of pink in the sail!

[Slinky]

OMG

You're being very good about it. I'd've died!!

[Lisa]

her little face was like "look what I drew mommy!" she looked sooo proud of it!!! I couldn't stay mad at her!!!

all the back stitch is finished

[Busy_B]

I'm sorry to hear about your little artist. I know I always worry when I leave my in the room with my 3 yo daughter. She usually takes the thread out of the needles on my pako organizer and then has fun with the scissors--usually with the threads and my pattern. I hope it washes out for you!

[Rose]

Well you are much calmer then I would have been and my little one would have been very aware of the fact that she had done a very bad thing. I hope you can cover it all up and bless your patients.

[Lisa]

they had both been "helping" me all day and at this point I was like "oh I give up" did them some milk and placed them both in bed!!