Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:19 pm
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Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:38 pm
If I was doing this a page at a time, this would be nearly one full page 
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:39 pm
Great stuff KK
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:26 pm
Wonderful!
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:37 pm
Amazing work, there is so much detail and its coming along beautifully 
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:05 am
Fantastic!!!!!!!!
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:41 am
Coming along fantastically Caz 
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:18 am
This is fabulous! Well done!!!!
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:33 am
fantastic progress
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:43 pm
Absolutely stunning!
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:47 pm
Love this picture and the sentiments behind completing it. It is coming on a treat.
Rosemary
Rosemary
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:12 am
I love your every progress. I know how special this is to you!
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:33 am
Wonderful progress! I haven't looked at this for a while now and I'm amazed just how much you've done!! I'ts a complex and detailed piece, well worth taking care over.
BTW......... I like the picture in the background. Is this another of your pieces?
I'ts a complex and detailed piece, well worth taking care over. BTW......... I like the picture in the background. Is this another of your pieces?
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:23 pm
The pic in the background is one that my mum did, that took her 5 years and is my inspiration when I'm starting to flag a bit! I have a proper picture of it somewhere which I am currently completely failing to find on Photobucket, I'll post it later
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:25 pm
I hope you can find it, I just went back and looked at it again. It looks very beautiful with all the detail in it.
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:56 pm
Duly found
This is signed with mum's name and the dates 1977 - 1982. My brother was born in 1980. I was born in 1981. Not only was this started before I was born, my mum actually managed to finish it while looking after two little kiddies. She also stretched it herself, and apparently had much more patience with French knots than I ever will.
This is signed with mum's name and the dates 1977 - 1982. My brother was born in 1980. I was born in 1981. Not only was this started before I was born, my mum actually managed to finish it while looking after two little kiddies. She also stretched it herself, and apparently had much more patience with French knots than I ever will.
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:59 pm
WOW!!! 
That really is something very special. Isn't it delicate and don't the flowers look gorgeous and give that feeling of movement almost.
What a wonderful keepsake.
That really is something very special. Isn't it delicate and don't the flowers look gorgeous and give that feeling of movement almost.
What a wonderful keepsake.
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:17 pm
That is just beautiful, and so vibrant and alive!
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:18 pm
You don't get a very good sense of it from the photo but there's wonderful textures and depths in it too, created by the different stitches used. I had this up on the wall next to my bed when I was a kid, then I made my dad dig it out about a year ago so I could have it up here
I hope to one day impress my kids as much as my mum impressed me.
I hope to one day impress my kids as much as my mum impressed me.
Re: WIP - Willow tree in park
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:57 pm
It's really beginning to show as a real picture, now!Kute Kitty wrote:13,200 stitches now
And I love that pic your mom stitched! Imagine doing that with small children around! I have enough problems with just a kitten!
