Tapestry! by Ink Circles

I did a thing! It's an awesome thing!  It's Tapestry!

Tapestry by Ink Circles; finished 7 Aug 2016

I finally finished Tapestry on Sunday night.   I really thought I wouldn't get it done until this coming weekend, but I hit it with a determination I rarely muster for non-death situations ;)  I couldn't take any decent pictures because I finished so late on Sunday, Monday was way dark because of thunderstorms, and couldn't get outside until last night.  /phew

There are only two other large pieces I've stitched straight through, and the other two were because of "races" that I was taking part in as a stitcher (Storyteller, which was a brutal 6 weeks, and Moonlight Dragon).

I was completely out of Pine (the grass/dark green overdye) and I was down to my last length of Cider, and I had an entire skein of Aztec Gold left, which I just find baffling.  I still had a length of the first skein, so that was odd.   I just want to mention that, because these overdyes vary so much with lots that I'd hate for someone to run out of something.   I don't know why I would have run out of Pine, I am pretty floss conservative and didn't even use full crosses unless I was in an area where the color was changing on the thread.   Weird.

And it was stitched on my very favorite fabric in the known universe - Platinum 30ct Murano.

This piece isn't just really pretty, it is deeply, deeply personal to me:  I took part of an SAL with friends and (most of us) started when we were all together in Phoenix this year for a get together.  The fabric was gifted to my by a friend (who has/had a whole bolt of that Murano!!!) and I even had to borrow someone else's Dark Chocolate because I forgot to bring it with me.   I really enjoyed it, and I will always think of my very good friends when I see it.    I think I've even come up with a brilliant! scheme to get it framed this year so it can go on my wall of awesome women.

And sadly, no bling for those really hot, hot close ups, but I took some anyway.

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Here's a bit more progress...

More Tapestry done!

I had a wicked head-summer-cold this weekend, so I just stayed in and watched some TV.  I watched Season 2 Penny Dreadful, finished Witches of East End and Hannibal season 3.   I stitched a little slowly, because Penny Dreadful and Hannibal have such awesome visuals, it's hard to pay attention to both!

I finished the left side middle - the way the motifs work, I think of the design as having 9 sections like a tic-tac-toe board.

And I got most of the bottom right corner done, too!

Post Seattle Tapestry update

As I mentioned previously, a bunch of us are working on Ink Circles's Tapestry.

Here's where I was when I got off the plane.  I was rushing to the corner because the fabric did not seem big enough, even though I measured, measured, measured:

July 3

 My colors are all off because of different lighting, but I really like working on each motif as I'd go.

July 9th

 I finished the whole corner bit, so I thought I would work down the right hand side.

July 11

 And this is the right side - I started by filling out the fleur-de-lis-ish motif from the center square and will use that as my guide on working down.  I'll probably work clockwise on this piece.

July 11

And just for fun, this was my view/seating arrangement for most of the stitching (it was rather nice).  I'm using an old kindle fire (that I don't use for anything, really) to stitch from while I travel, though it seems to be bleeding over into "not" travel, too, because it's convenient.  I scanned the design/pattern into a PDF and I'm using a program to highlight as I stitch.   It's not perfect, but it's fun for now.

How I organized my table and wine :)

View of Lake Washington (I think that's the right lake)

This will severely slow my progress on my WIPocalypse WIPs, but it's still fun.  I'm going to try to stitch this whole thing through, and we'll see how that goes.