I was going to try and make my posts in some sort of chronological order so that I could demostrate my progress but I've been a bit short of time for scanning so I'll just wade straight in with some of my work...
This is the piece I'm probably most proud of, it is of my boyfriend, Tim, I made it from a photo I took of him. There are a variety of stitches. The outline is back stitch, the hair is sort of messy satin stitch. The background blue of his shirt is(are?) tiny cross stitches and then for the pinstripe I stripped the thread down to 1 strand so that it would be more subtle. It took quite a long time to made but I’m really happy with it. I like the unfinished look to it. My main aim was to get a sense of movement to it which I hope I achieved with the lines on the shirt. Now I’m going to attempt to post a picture – I’m new to blogging so fingers crossed!
The whole thing is probably not more than 15cm tall to give you an idea of the size. I copied the outlines on the photograph and then used a light box to transfer the simplified version to cotton. I hope you like it!
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