Tuesday, December 16, 2014

A Finish!

I did it!  I beat my deadline!  Kelli if you're reading this stop!  My Tinkerbell is finished and can be shipped off tomorrow to DH's friend.  It's doing it's last bit of drying right now before we frame it but it should be there in time for Christmas. 
The words are a line from a song from the movie.  It's in pins because that's how I stretch and remove the wrinkles from my pieces so I don't flatten the stitches with an iron.  It still looks a little wrinkly but that's mostly because of where my light source is.  I may spray it again tonight and see if that helps them release more but I'll check it when it's completely dry.  This one was really tough for me.  Most of the backstitching was done inside the squares on the aida or inbetween the holes.  And by most I mean almost all of it.  And each flower had like ten stitches per petal of backstitching to make all of the curves.  What I thought took one day actually took 5.  I'm really glad this one is over.

I'm not starting my Paradise piece until the new year so I may continue on my Magical World until then.  I still have to grid Paradise though and work out the wording so we'll see.

Until next time stitchers,
Stitch long and prosper!

10 comments:

  1. Beautiful stitching Heather , lovely Tinklebell hugs.

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  2. Such a beautiful finishes. Ack I hate back stitching like that, it is bad enough on evenweave but on Aida it's torture. Your hard work definitely paid off though as it's stunning.

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  3. Congrats Heather, this is such a sweet finish :)

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  4. Oh my gosh she is gorgeous! The backstitching makes it look fantastic so the effort definitely paid off.

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  5. I agree with the other comments - the backstitching was definitely worth the effort and the whole project is GORGEOUS! Another pat on the back for you! :)

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  6. Congrats on the gorgeous finish Heather.

    Linda

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  7. So glad you pushed through the 5 days of backstitching. It turned out so beautifully. The wings are my favorite. :-) I love the colors.

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  8. Thanks for all of the lovely comments. She did turn out pretty and we sent her off today. I ended up ironing her but forgot to get a final pic in frame.

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  9. This whole stitch is beautifully detailed but I just love the flowers. They'd look great on anything and in so many colors if you could stand to stitch them again! Definitely worth it, congrats :D

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