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Floral Embroidery

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Update 9/30/19: Now for sale!
Update: 2019 with new photos. I appreciate this piece because of the work involved when I did it, but I hate it for the angst it puts into me when I think about how Mom didn't want it. She used to - when I was working on it she was adamant about it being made into a pillow or some such. But when I was clearing out my room for a deep clean I offered it to her, and she just shook her head and made that little 'ehhh' sound. It's not the first time and it wasn't the last time, it's so extremely difficult for me to make any sort of gift for her.

The stitchwork itself is full of mistakes and not very clean, but considering I started this when I was 13 with only one prior crewel embroidery experience, and for all that I wasn't using hoops or stretch bars at the time... it probably came out as well as it was going to.

Old photo:

Uhm, finally! I've been putting this piece off since I got it. Embroidery really isn't my thing... but here it goes.

This is made from the Dimensions Gold Collection Kit "Oriental Splendor". It's basically an image already put in with parts for me to embellish. So most of the petals, anywhere you see shiny gold, some of the flowers... yep that's me. The rest of it was pre-printed on the fabric.
Signature included on this beast.

So! That being said, I got this kit in 2005 or 2006, started it and then walked away from it and let it gather oh-so-much dust beneath my end table. There it sat, oblivious that I had sorted the colors incorrectly in the beginning and that my stitches were nowhere near as clean as the preview image on the package. But now it's finished! And I can be done with this thing forever.

Color Total: 27
Size: 20 x 14 inches
Time: 56 1/2 hours
Full color white home-spun cloth with areas marked for stitching.
Image size
1500x2543px 1.74 MB
Make
SONY
Model
DSC-RX100
Shutter Speed
1/4 second
Aperture
F/11.0
Focal Length
10 mm
ISO Speed
500
Date Taken
Mar 17, 2019, 1:17:27 PM
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