Cross Stitch Photos
Here's a photo of the cross stitch project I've been working on. (Top photo). Some of you who read my blog regularly have seen this before, it's Persian Iris Garden Mandala. You will have to click on the photo to see any detail. The part I had to re-stitch four times yesterday is to the right of the blue triangle--those stitches represent flowers.
The bottom photo is not my work, obviously. This is the completed Persian Iris Garden, completed this spring by my online friend Hans, who lives in the Netherlands. He did beautiful work. This pattern is one of three very complicated and extensive patterns I have, all of them are 'garden mandalas' designed by German cross-stitch designer Martina Weber. Persian Iris Garden is completed in 12 sections and was an online class, which Hans was a part of and I was not (I was late to buy the pattern).
I'm working on Part 3 (blue triangles and flowers) and Part 4 (columns and squares with green 'hedges') concurrently. You can see where I am in relation to the finished item. I have a long way to go but I really want to finish this in 2008 so I can move onto another project.
Please do click on the bottom photo to get an idea of the scope of the work and all the beads. There is quite a lot of 'bling' in this work. The photo does not do this work justice, as I'm finding out. There are over 3,000 beads in this and it has to be specially framed with spacers under the glass to protect the stitching and the beads.
The bottom photo is not my work, obviously. This is the completed Persian Iris Garden, completed this spring by my online friend Hans, who lives in the Netherlands. He did beautiful work. This pattern is one of three very complicated and extensive patterns I have, all of them are 'garden mandalas' designed by German cross-stitch designer Martina Weber. Persian Iris Garden is completed in 12 sections and was an online class, which Hans was a part of and I was not (I was late to buy the pattern).
I'm working on Part 3 (blue triangles and flowers) and Part 4 (columns and squares with green 'hedges') concurrently. You can see where I am in relation to the finished item. I have a long way to go but I really want to finish this in 2008 so I can move onto another project.
Please do click on the bottom photo to get an idea of the scope of the work and all the beads. There is quite a lot of 'bling' in this work. The photo does not do this work justice, as I'm finding out. There are over 3,000 beads in this and it has to be specially framed with spacers under the glass to protect the stitching and the beads.
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