Wednesday, August 10

Tapestry! by Ink Circles

I did a thing! It's an awesome thing!  It's Tapestry!

Tapestry by Ink Circles; finished 7 Aug 2016
I finally finished Tapestry on Sunday night.   I really thought I wouldn't get it done until this coming weekend, but I hit it with a determination I rarely muster for non-death situations ;)  I couldn't take any decent pictures because I finished so late on Sunday, Monday was way dark because of thunderstorms, and couldn't get outside until last night.  /phew

There are only two other large pieces I've stitched straight through, and the other two were because of "races" that I was taking part in as a stitcher (Storyteller, which was a brutal 6 weeks, and Moonlight Dragon).

I was completely out of Pine (the grass/dark green overdye) and I was down to my last length of Cider, and I had an entire skein of Aztec Gold left, which I just find baffling.  I still had a length of the first skein, so that was odd.   I just want to mention that, because these overdyes vary so much with lots that I'd hate for someone to run out of something.   I don't know why I would have run out of Pine, I am pretty floss conservative and didn't even use full crosses unless I was in an area where the color was changing on the thread.   Weird.

And it was stitched on my very favorite fabric in the known universe - Platinum 30ct Murano.

This piece isn't just really pretty, it is deeply, deeply personal to me:  I took part of an SAL with friends and (most of us) started when we were all together in Phoenix this year for a get together.  The fabric was gifted to my by a friend (who has/had a whole bolt of that Murano!!!) and I even had to borrow someone else's Dark Chocolate because I forgot to bring it with me.   I really enjoyed it, and I will always think of my very good friends when I see it.    I think I've even come up with a brilliant! scheme to get it framed this year so it can go on my wall of awesome women.

And sadly, no bling for those really hot, hot close ups, but I took some anyway.




10 comments:

  1. Wow!! Absolutely gorgeous finish. I have odd things happen with thread like that as well sometimes.

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  2. Awesome job it's gorgeous! The colors are so fun and vibrant!

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    1. Thank you! It was really fun to stitch, and easy to keep up with a motif at a time. Occasionally I'd do the "trying to stitch all of one color" thing, but would invariably have to frog.

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  3. What a great finish! I hope you had as much fun stitching this as we had watching you.

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    1. It was great fun - thank you! :D

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  4. What a fabulous achievement! I love that you and your friends stitched it together. Has anyone else finished theirs?

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    1. Thanks, Justine! One other friend finished hers a couple of weeks before I did. I'm enjoying seeing everyone else's progress as they post it to Facebook or other Social sites :D

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  5. What a stunning piece, I love all the colours even if the quantities were strange! It's so nice to stitch alongside friends too.

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  6. I stumbled upon your blog when searching for finished versions of this design and this is absolutely gorgeous - very impressed and will be trying out the fabric!

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