Friday, December 2, 2016

Eek I Suck!

Hey everyone I know it's been a while.  My only excuse is that I've been on vacation at the end of every month for the past 3 months.  But I'm excited to say I have a finish to show!  Finally!  I finished it 10/15 and got it framed and sent about a week and a half later.  I haven't seen it hanging yet but I know the recipient has gotten it safe and sound and was really excited.

Here is Paradise after it was finished:





And here it is after it was framed:

Sorry for the really bad glare.  But I promise it's pretty in person :)

I framed it myself in a floating picture frame that I had to engineer.  Basically the way the frame worked was that it had the frame, a piece of glass, another piece of glass and then a smaller wood frame that fit inside the first to help sandwich the two pieces of glass together to hold the pics in place.  In order to make it work I cut the foam board so that it fit snugly inside of the smaller wooden frame.  Then I switched the order so that it was: frame, glass, smaller frame with the cross stitch inside, and then other piece of glass.  I stretched the fabric on the foam core board and pinned it in place but I didn't lace it because the fabric was large enough to just fold over the back and since it was a clear back I wanted it to look nice.

I hope that makes sense :)

As for this blog I'm not really sure what I want to do next.  I've already started 2 other projects but I don't know if I'm going to start another one on the 1st or not.  I guess we'll see how this blog is going to work next year :)

Thanks everyone for sticking with me on my journey!
 

7 comments:

  1. It's fabulous! Congrats on finishing!
    It's been a fun journey watching your progress on this.

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  2. Congrats on finishing it!! It looks beautiful in that frame!! I am going to miss seeing your updates on this though :)

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  3. You son't suck at all! On the contrary, you are quite awesome for having such an awesome finish ^_^

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  4. It's beautiful! I love that I got to see it from first stitch to last. I can't wait so see what's up next. Do we know what the blog is going to be doing next year?

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  5. Fabulous finish and very cool the way you framed it!

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  6. Thanks everyone! The recipient loved it! I don't know what's going on next year but I would assume we would know soon!

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  7. Heather, congratulations on a gorgeous finish! I have no doubt the recipient loved it. Watching your updates has been both fun and inspirational. Beautiful work!

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