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shinyhappygothApproximately five years after thinking it up, I have finally resumed The Embroidery Project!
The Embroidery Project is a cross-stitch of Michael Zulli's frontispiece from The Wake, the final volume of The Sandman. I made the pattern from a small copy I'd searched out at the time, 330x300 pixels. Not particularly big, but for that very reason, I didn't want to lose any more picture quality... so I converted it to a pattern with one stitch per pixel.
When I originally tried to start The Embroidery Project, I figured I'd use the most common cross-stitch fabric, 14-count Aida cloth. This would have made it just under two feet to a side. Impressive, no? However, what stymied me right away was not the complexity of the project, nor the time it would take to complete it, but how cumbersome the fabric turned out to be. That much fabric, it kept getting in my way no matter how I rolled, folded or clipped it. I bought a hoop, but again, the size of the project meant that I bought an 18-inch quilting hoop, which didn't help matters much. The project fell by the wayside.
This time, I am using 28-count Monaco cloth. The stitches are tiny, but I've always worked well small, and the length of fabric is turning out to be quite manageable. So now I just have to get through the 99,000 stitches.
Wish me luck.
The Embroidery Project is a cross-stitch of Michael Zulli's frontispiece from The Wake, the final volume of The Sandman. I made the pattern from a small copy I'd searched out at the time, 330x300 pixels. Not particularly big, but for that very reason, I didn't want to lose any more picture quality... so I converted it to a pattern with one stitch per pixel.
When I originally tried to start The Embroidery Project, I figured I'd use the most common cross-stitch fabric, 14-count Aida cloth. This would have made it just under two feet to a side. Impressive, no? However, what stymied me right away was not the complexity of the project, nor the time it would take to complete it, but how cumbersome the fabric turned out to be. That much fabric, it kept getting in my way no matter how I rolled, folded or clipped it. I bought a hoop, but again, the size of the project meant that I bought an 18-inch quilting hoop, which didn't help matters much. The project fell by the wayside.
This time, I am using 28-count Monaco cloth. The stitches are tiny, but I've always worked well small, and the length of fabric is turning out to be quite manageable. So now I just have to get through the 99,000 stitches.
Wish me luck.
