Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Happiest girl in the whole USA!
And They Sinned is finished!! Yippee! Hip Hip Hooray!! Celebration! This was finished on Sunday night but I have been basking in glory and not wanting to do any work or blogging. Just some stats before the pictures. You gotta take the bad with the good. Hee hee. Total time to stitch it was nine months, three days or 390 hours. Not bad as I had read somewhere it took someone 500 hours to stitch. I kept track of my time by tally marks in one of those little mole skin books. You sure can tell when I got my Ott Lite as my time went from 10-15 hours a week to 15-22 hours a week. What a difference a nice light can make. The bottom green section took me more than two months to stitch. It is 9 1/2 inches wide by just under 48 inches long, stitched on 35 ct linen with one strand of Gentle Arts Sampler Threads. Okay, enough of the blah blah blah and on to the good stuff.
I love the big cloud at the top with the sun shining down on Adam and Eve.
The verse is my favorite part of the sampler. I redesigned it by adding colors to it, centering it, and adding the butterflies. The lion and the lamb are so cute! I also changed the girls hair color to resemble my own.
Thank you to Claudia for asking me if I was going to stitch all 10 rows of grass under the lion. Heck NO!! Moving on to bigger pastures. Literally.
If I were to stitch this again I would have left out the darker green color of the pasture. The lighter green would have made it easier to see the motifs.
Thank you so much for everyone's support during the making of this project. From the very beginning I had everyone cheering for me. Patricia Franklin helped me find the perfect linen via The Internet. Claudia talked some sense into me several times and Lori Fournier was my rock. Poor Lori heard me wailing and whining for the last two months about my grass. If I forgot to mention anyone I'll just say that I've been up for 20 hours and am having a Rick Perry moment! Till next time ladies, happy stitching and happy blogging.
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You should be so proud of yourself! It looks terrific.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Dawn! You've done and awesome job, and I certainly hope you are proud of yourself, because you should be!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations, Dawn--your finish is stunning!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! What a fantastic piece!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on an amazing finish Dawn!! looks awesome and what a wonderful job you did...now I can't wait to see it framed :)
ReplyDeleteWow what an amazing finish! Well done for keeping going with it Dawn. It is stunning!
ReplyDeleteDawn there just are no words to descibe how totally beautiful this is! You should feel super proud od this! I would love to have this to stitch but wonder if I woyld ever get it all done. Still it is on my mind and yours does inspire me!! So gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! What a huge accomplishment!!! I am still working away on mine.
ReplyDeleteI came across your blog last night and stayed up until 1.30 reading your ATS journey. I couldn't put my ipad down. I started this chart a few days ago. I have really enjoyed your posts and look forward to following your blog and your progress on future projects.
ReplyDeleteAww Delta, my name on the Internet.... I will start to take a list of who wants autographs lol
ReplyDeleteYOU did an awesome job and what a sweet treasure you will have hanging in your home. No worries about the whining & wailing, that's what friends *rocks* are for. It also reminded me of what I went through stitching that bloody grass haha NOW let's gets crackin' on Villages of HRH!!!!