Showing posts with label Dorothy Lesher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dorothy Lesher. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

Diamond Iris: Framed


I really like it. The frame is exactly the same color as the border and by using the whitest white possible, it really make the whole design stand out.
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Don't look at the wallpaper behind it. I know it does not fit but this is the best place I know of in my home where I get the best lighting but I need to take the photograph a bit sideway so that I don't get all the glare on the glass.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Diamond Iris: All Stitched


Happy to have this project all stitched. The framer should receive it for framing probably on Saturday :-)

Monday, September 07, 2009

Diamond Iris: Everything is done except fillings

Just taken a photo of everything I have done so far. Sorry about the bad photo but I tried and tried and could not do any better for some reason.
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All that remains to do now is the inner background around the Iris and then the border filling (page 8.17) and that one will be ready for the framer :-)

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Diamond Iris: Inside border


A rough picture here (ceiling lights showing on canvas).
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As I said before to you, I counted 74 holes in mine instead of the 62 that were indicated on the instructions.
If you have a good look you can see that the Iris itself is pretty much centered inside the diamond shape and to me that was the most important thing to do.
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You need to think that you will be stitching your border with a four thread upright gobelin stitch, two over my red line and two under my red line. making the leaves even a bit closer to the border than we see here.
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We also need to think about the outside border. We can discuss that a bit later as we still have plenty of stitching to do before we get to this point like stitching the background inside that border, all around the Iris itself.
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Let me know if you have problems.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Diamond Iris: Petals

I am afraid that is the best I was able to do with this photo. Of course when the outline is stitched, it will really separate the different petals, but at least it gives you some idea of how I stitched mine. No doubts, yours will be quite different. Moving on to the leaves now :-)