Cross Stitcher In Residence [WIP]
I have been working on a Lizzie*Kate design this weekend, a relatively quick chart which is delightful in its simplicity. As I did not have the colours which the original chart required — and preferring to modify some of them anyway (e.g. red instead of blue) — I swapped some of the colours for ones which resonated more strongly with me. After all, this one will be for me! :)
This is also a new experience for me — I am stitching on linen for the first time ever. In this case, it’s a subtly mottled cream linen, 28-count (specifically, it’s Zweigart’s Cashel Vintage Linen, in “Country Cream”). I am pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to stitch “over two” — which I’d always intellectually understood in the past, but the concept of physically doing so freaked me out so much I had a mental block for quite some time!
And so, after four hours I had completed the hillside, house, roof, and trees — which I thought wasn’t bad! Here I am at the five-and-three-quarter-hours mark.
When I finish the entire piece I’ll probably write more about the colour substitutions I’ve made, but for now I’m just looking forward to seeing how it all develops…
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