cross-stitch yr idols

(Album covers? You rockist)

(Of course if you were a real rockist you would call it sleeve art and dare not even contemplate degrading it in such a cheap and frankly amusing way)

http://www.sewkits.co.uk/belle.jpg

(rebecca your posts are good!!)

but technically aren't those needlepoint, not cross-stitch?

http://www.embroiderersguild.org.uk/stitch/stitches/imgs/freestyle.jpg

/pedant

the homely charm of cross-stitch might be good for country and western or Dr. Octagon.

This is one of the best reviews I have ever read. :-)

haha have you spent any time on ilx at all?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3572/3533621910_4bcb6f8062.jpg

I now view cross-stitching in a new (improved) way. Did you do this roxy?

lol that deer is my hero. you can tell he's having a psychedelic experience cuz of the stuff coming out of his head!

hi sorry to deviate from the topic and post actual cross-stitch art, but these are fun and i want to show and tell. thank you for reading.

https://i.imgur.com/Z77Y0Qk.jpeg
starting with my personal favorite. it was completed between 1987 and 1989. i paid for it to be professionally reframed in 1995 after the original framework broke in a move. mother wanted to throw it away. andy stared at it intently for the duration of my first listen to ATLiens. some very classic light purples and lavenders in this one, too. it's one of her `early works` so she was still using the thicker yarn.

https://i.imgur.com/3CybVRg.jpeg
classic merry-go-round scene. a personal affinity is attached to this one because it was one of the few times i heard her exclaim a profanity in anger. it was the big one, too! to be fair, the manes are quite detailed and she had no clue another person was within earshot. this was 1990, the start of her most prolific era.

https://i.imgur.com/pCKfPAN.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/Vx3eFSn.jpeg
a two-fer here. she became very intriguied by late 19th century americana, and these victorian house scene patterns became incredibly easy for her to complete. the term didn't exist then, but she started speedrunning the second pattern. gave them to neighbors, friends from the congregation, family, bowling buddies, etc. literally everyone got one. her fastest time that i recall was two days, about an eight hour shift each day.

https://i.imgur.com/HRuMegQ.jpeg
after a while, she found these template kit things where you could build your own scene, sort of. i'm not saying this is a one a kind scene pictured here, but it is the closest thing to the artist's conception. the kits were kind of like putting clip art together; this is her masterpiece. she did a few like it, but this is the largest scope of them. i imagine the children getting ice cream are a self-insert, of sorts.

https://i.imgur.com/y1sMVJT.jpeg
the artist (r) and her life partner (l) in 1939.

https://i.imgur.com/aD7ysCm.jpeg
and again in 1985, just before she took up cross-stitch.