Two framed finishes…
Along with the knitting projects that have kept me busy of late, I’ve also finished and self-framed a couple of cross stitch pieces. For a change, these are both for me and are now on display in the small lounge.
I love the framing job on this one. I couldn’t find a frame to exactly match the dimensions of the mount, so instead I found a frame I liked (and I adore the brushed silver effect here!) and added some black card as a background to lift the piece a little. I believe it’s worked out really prettily, and the whole piece is just adorable. :)
The second piece is Cross Stitcher in Residence, which was still a WIP when I last blogged about it. Well, I finally finished it in mid-May, and despite not being totally sure about the colour substitutions I’d chosen I really like it now. You can see the original Lizzie*Kate chart here, but I wasn’t that enthused by the pale blue and pink so I reworked it with two different shades of red (DMC colours 498 and 815, to be precise) and utilised the dark blue for the large crosses at the top and bottom. I do think it came out better than I anticipated! All in all, it took around 10 hours.
Andrew helped me choose the frame, as I didn’t quite know what I was looking for at the time. He was right, though — aiming for something more rustic worked wonderfully.
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