showing my work
May. 7th, 2012 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keladry_lupinTo keep me motivated, I shall take photos of the Sherlock Craft Swap project to show my progress.
All right, yes, I started it over two weeks before May 7th, and this is all I had to show for it. I panicked when I saw the odd shades of green and yellow the computer assigned to be stitched into John's face and put off working on it for fear of fucking it up.
7 May at noon:
9 May at 04.00 (31.8% done):
9 May at 23.30 (45.6% done):
11 May at 01.00 (55% done) Passed 50% on the embroidery project today. It's starting to look like a face!
12 May at 23.00 (60% done):
13 May at 23.00 (77.5% done)
I've discovered some mistakes I've made, and I can't undo those few stitches without undoing the other seventy made with the same strand of floss, so I've marked them in red on my chart and will stitch over them. I still have four color decisions to make, and there's still over 600 stitches to complete, but I'm three days away from the deadline, so I have to be done Tuesday night.
14 May at 23.30 (83.3% done)
It took hours to experiment and decide on colors for John's skin. He isn't as yellow as he could have been; I've deviated from the computer's recommendations and blended different colors of floss for what's left. At this point, I just have to say "It is what it is" because I don't have the time to undo what I've already done and try something else.
16 May at 02.05 (98% done)
I have a few odd bits and bobs left, and I still have to decide what to do about the gap in his hair because I sure as hell am not doing it in shades of GREEN. But I'll be finished in the morning, and then I can wash it and press it under a big pile of books and then mail it off from work!
16 May at noon: 2,910 stitches DONE! Isn't he cute?
Note to self for future reference: when doing someone's face like this, use higher-count fabric. There's a reason there are hundreds of pixels per inch on computer screens and not fourteen.
Technical stuff: I used KG Chart and the image below, which I ganked from the Internet, to make the bookmark. The bookmark is from Charles Craft, 14-count Aida fabric. I used three strands of DMC floss.
I didn't use the whole photo, obviously; just a crop of John's smirk.
I adore that smirk.
And I want that wallpaper. I think the wallpaper in the bottom left corner is my favorite part of the bookmark (other than the smirk), even though I should have realized it should be brown instead of navy. I corrected that mistake after stitching the wallpaper but before I made part of John's hair navy.
All right, yes, I started it over two weeks before May 7th, and this is all I had to show for it. I panicked when I saw the odd shades of green and yellow the computer assigned to be stitched into John's face and put off working on it for fear of fucking it up.
7 May at noon:
9 May at 04.00 (31.8% done):
9 May at 23.30 (45.6% done):
11 May at 01.00 (55% done) Passed 50% on the embroidery project today. It's starting to look like a face!
12 May at 23.00 (60% done):
13 May at 23.00 (77.5% done)
I've discovered some mistakes I've made, and I can't undo those few stitches without undoing the other seventy made with the same strand of floss, so I've marked them in red on my chart and will stitch over them. I still have four color decisions to make, and there's still over 600 stitches to complete, but I'm three days away from the deadline, so I have to be done Tuesday night.
14 May at 23.30 (83.3% done)
It took hours to experiment and decide on colors for John's skin. He isn't as yellow as he could have been; I've deviated from the computer's recommendations and blended different colors of floss for what's left. At this point, I just have to say "It is what it is" because I don't have the time to undo what I've already done and try something else.
16 May at 02.05 (98% done)
I have a few odd bits and bobs left, and I still have to decide what to do about the gap in his hair because I sure as hell am not doing it in shades of GREEN. But I'll be finished in the morning, and then I can wash it and press it under a big pile of books and then mail it off from work!
16 May at noon: 2,910 stitches DONE! Isn't he cute?
Note to self for future reference: when doing someone's face like this, use higher-count fabric. There's a reason there are hundreds of pixels per inch on computer screens and not fourteen.
Technical stuff: I used KG Chart and the image below, which I ganked from the Internet, to make the bookmark. The bookmark is from Charles Craft, 14-count Aida fabric. I used three strands of DMC floss.
I didn't use the whole photo, obviously; just a crop of John's smirk.
I adore that smirk.
And I want that wallpaper. I think the wallpaper in the bottom left corner is my favorite part of the bookmark (other than the smirk), even though I should have realized it should be brown instead of navy. I corrected that mistake after stitching the wallpaper but before I made part of John's hair navy.
