Wednesday, December 24

Christmas Ornaments by Nora Corbett

Well, I finished the piece I'd started over the "sick" weekend :)  Luckily I'm doing much better, even if not at 100% yet.

Someone posted a finished piece on a Facebook group and mentioned that it was from the 2012 Keepsake Cross-Stitch Calendar, but is now available through Herrschner's as a pdf download.

I thought I would just take a couple of hours to bead it this morning (I started at 9 or so?), but 12 hours later I'm finally done!   The beading on this was intense, but I think the beading also took a little longer, because I made sure the beads were good and secure since the beading on this is so heavy.

I really liked the picture I saw on Facebook, so I went with that idea on the fabric I had.  I  have a lot of grey(ish) fabric, so I did a floss toss and pulled the one I liked the best (some of them were too green or blue for what I wanted).   I think I ended up with a pewter lugana.  I'm pretty sure it's 28 count because the stitches were so huge (can you tell I don't keep all of my fabric as labelled as I should? haha!)

Anyway, it's been rainy and miserable all day here, and should be for a few days, so no awesome pictures, I'll probably update it later.

Here's the before with no beads/kreiniks - I actually stayed up late last night to finish it and considered WIPWednesday-ing it.



And the after! - I really couldn't get the shots I wanted - it's been rather dreary here all day, so pretty much just artificial lighting, slightly different shots show off the beads differently.

                

And a whole bunch of bonus shots (sans my initials, I had to ponder that for a bit).

         

                  



I'm pretty sure it's the last finish for the year, but at least this piece will stop screaming at me every time I see a posted finish. I can't wait to get it framed!

14 comments:

  1. WOW!! It went from "that's nice" to "Holy Cow!" It's a beautiful finish :D

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    1. Thank you! I'm so glad I decided to take a picture before beads. It made me feel better about all of that work :)

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  2. This is remarkable! A stunning piece and well worth the extra time spent! Hope you're feeling 100% very soon.

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    1. Thank you! I can't wait to get it framed - it's one piece that definitely deserves to be displayed with all of that bling!

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  3. Wow. That is amazing!

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  4. Wow! It was pretty before, but the beads and metallics just added a whole new layer of stunning!

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    1. More than even I was expecting! :) It's funny how much I questioned the choices Nora made until the piece was all together :)

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  5. I am so glad you shared this beautiful piece. I had to download it and add it to my "to do" list for 2015.

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    1. Awesome!
      If I hadn't seen it shared on one of the Mira groups, I don't think I would have done it, but it was sooooo pretty!

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  6. How had I never seen this piece before this year? Okay, okay, you've convinced me! Just downloaded it. Maybe I can have it done for next Christmas? :-)

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    1. I think it's because it was in a calendar? I missed it, too, until I saw someone else had done it (in a Mira FB group). And yay!!! It actually only took me a weekend, so at least it's a (mostly) quick stitch ;)

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