Monday, January 08, 2007

Phoenix Finished!

Phoenix
Dracolair Designs
Unknown Zweigart hand dyed fabric

The @$^@$%$%@$%@^@#!$@ backstitching on this was a nightmare. The backstitch was charted on separate pages and was mostly done in long stitch, and didn't correspond well to grid intersections. It took forever and drove me batty while I was working on it. I should have finished it well before the end of 2006, but I didn't. I just couldn't force myself to work on it. But now it's done and it looks gorgeous. And I did discover how nice Kreinik's cord is to work with. Next up: finishing Frog Prince and bringing back out Fantasy Triptych. I'll have to find something simple to work on as well as both of those are very colour change intensive.

2 comments:

Jan said...

I'm not stalking you, honest! I was just going to add a comment to your (then) most recent blog asking Heather, Heather, where art thou?
Sorry to hear about the illnesses - it's going around big time. Thankfully, our house had it before the Christmas break.
So, your last post says 11:07p.m. but it's only now 10:11p.m. ...time difference of an hour? (DUH!)
Take care!

Joanna said...

Wow, wow, wow! I know the backstitch was a royal PITA, but wow does the final look AWESOME.