I'm giving it a rest
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (45498)
St. Catharines, Ontario
January 29, 2023 10:14am CST
This is what I've been working on for quite a while now. I stop and start and stop again. Can't remember when I started it but it was before last summer.
And it's not "done" yet. There are another 12 pages of pattern to go, with each page amounting to just over 200 stitches.
Does it look odd like this? The blank part at the bottom amounts to 6 pages of pattern, then there'd be about that much more to do for the last 6 pages.
But I'm wondering if I should finish it. Those last 12 pages are just mountain and greenery.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
29 Jan 23
If you're tired of working on it, then it looks nice the way it is. If you're just asking to be asking our opinion, then it still looks very nice already. I would have thought it was already done if you hadn't said there was still more to go.
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Jan 23
It doesn't look weird square like that, with all that sky?
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Jan 23
@DaddyEvil OK, I won't rush to finish it just yet.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
30 Jan 23
@BarBaraPrz I thought so. So much detail wow! You have done an amazing job!
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 23
@TheHorse You'd have to to work with littles.
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Jan 23
Well, I find it promotes patience, and I've come across other cross-stitchers say the same thing.
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@TheHorse (205817)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Jan 23
@BarBaraPrz I actually DO understand patience.
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@TheHorse (205817)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Jan 23
@BarBaraPrz I'd want it as it is. How long until you will "complete" it?
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 23
@TheHorse Depends on if/when I get back to it. I started it in '21 but didn't work on it much in the summers.
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@JudyEv (325854)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Jan 23
@BarBaraPrz It really is a fairytale castle.
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@celticeagle (159105)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jan 23
I can't imagine there is more of it to come. It looks nice this way.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
29 Jan 23
Patience seems to be your middle name That is impossible for me.
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
30 Jan 23
How can you do these things..you have great hand coordination.
My fingers, wrists and hands would not be able anymore..pain too much.
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 23
I have pain, too, but I thoroughly enjoy doing this, so I don't notice it. Same when I'm gardening.
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
30 Jan 23
@BarBaraPrz I understand, sometimes you have to just plow through it.
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@RasmaSandra (73473)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Jan 23
Best of luck to you with this, I think it is a beautiful picture, It looks like a painting,
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 23
Thank you. A painting in thread...
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@Marilynda1225 (79772)
• United States
30 Jan 23
Your needlepoint looks very pretty and I also thought it was finished. Looks like it would take a lot of time to accomplish that project since it has a lot of detail. I can see why your stop and start. Are you going to frame it and hang it?
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 23
It's cross-stitch, actually, done with cotton thread. Needlepoint is done with wool.
It's rather large, and to have it professionally matted and framed would cost a couple hundred dollars, so I don't know if I will.
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
31 Jan 23
@Marilynda1225 Maybe one day.
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@Marilynda1225 (79772)
• United States
30 Jan 23
@BarBaraPrz sorry about the mistake of saying needlepoint instead of cross stitch. Its really beautiful. Sounds like it would be expensive to have it professionally matted and framed but it's definitely a work of art. Hope one day you'll have it on display so it can be admired
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@BarBaraPrz (45498)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Jan 23
Thank you. I think it creates patience.
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
30 Jan 23
@BarBaraPrz I can understand that.
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