Re: Stitching big, crazy things/Sense of Sight. was: Tambour Hook Use???

On Nov 29, 1:28 pm, monique <moni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm thinking 16 ct. Should still be good coverage, but easier on the
eyes. With confetti stitches like that, the back gets really messy, and
18 ct. is too jammed up.

I could see that happening. 16 has become my favorite count.

I rather like the dawn, the sea, the green hills behind her. The
little white dots over her shoulder are sheep!

I can see it either way, although with the background she looks a bit
more earth-bound, like she's *just* turned into an angel. No matter
which you decide, it will be a beautiful piece! I did Fairy
Grandmother on hand-dyed fabric and I like it *much* better than the
natural linen that MLI did the model on! You can see it in my
webshots album, user name ndjoan.

... and stitched them into one flat wallhanging, arranging all the figures
around the Infant and overlapping the designs where necessary. She drew
a very faint Bethlehem skyline in the background and put a big Christmas
star at the top.

What a cool idea! She's not a glutton for punishment like me,
then? :)

Bet your nativity is going to be gorgeous! Will the figures be double-sided?

Yup.

She says that Joseph looks like my DH and one year my dad made a
teeny pair of glasses and put them on Joseph to help the resemblance
along. Hee hee hee...

ROTFL! I bet your mom got a kick out of that! Does she still put
them on him every year?

Joan
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