First, the chunky scarf. It took two goes to put on the other end of tassels. The first time I had too many and it made the end of the scarf fan out (more so than it already did because of casting off row) so I undid them all and re-spaced them with slightly less. Looks better now and quite happy with it overall.
Second was finally getting to the framers earlier this week to get a coloured matt board picked out for my cross stitch and getting it cut to size. I spent this morning stretching it properly with backing card (which I've cheated and not done in the past, but this one is much larger and at risk of shifting in the frame) and stitching it all tightly in place which took two hours, then fitting it snugly in the frame. All that's needed now is to put a second hook in the wall to hang it, as it needs two hooks and the ones that were already there are spaced too far apart, so one has to be removed and another put in closer to the original. A lot of work but very worth it. The first time I've picked out a design specifically for a room and a certain colour scheme. It's bigger than it looks in the photo, 55 x 75cm, which makes it look like a decent piece of wall art.
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First, the chunky scarf. It took two goes to put on the other end of tassels. The first time I had too many and it made the end of the scarf fan out (more so than it already did because of casting off row) so I undid them all and re-spaced them with slightly less. Looks better now and quite happy with it overall.
Second was finally getting to the framers earlier this week to get a coloured matt board picked out for my cross stitch and getting it cut to size.
I spent this morning stretching it properly with backing card (which I've cheated and not done in the past, but this one is much larger and at risk of shifting in the frame) and stitching it all tightly in place which took two hours, then fitting it snugly in the frame.
All that's needed now is to put a second hook in the wall to hang it, as it needs two hooks and the ones that were already there are spaced too far apart, so one has to be removed and another put in closer to the original. A lot of work but very worth it. The first time I've picked out a design specifically for a room and a certain colour scheme.
It's bigger than it looks in the photo, 55 x 75cm, which makes it look like a decent piece of wall art.