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I've included some close-up shots of the completed piece so that you can see how the baby's lock of hair is sewn onto the top of the chart, and how the name and date appear, stitched at the bottom.
The verse reads:
In tones of a hue so deep As soft as a silent prayer A lock of my baby's hair I catch it before it lands And save each shiny strand Remembrance of one more step Of my baby's growing up Within this poem it will be And placed for all to see
This piece was my very first official UFO (UnFinished Object). I started it in October of 1995, I believe. I really got bogged down in the backstitching. ARRRRGH!! Each bit of baby's breath on the chart was basically a cross stitch surrounded by a four-sided stitch. It seemed to take forever to get this chart completed! In addition, the spacing on the chart within the words was off in a few of the lines. That made it hard for me to get things lined up correctly. It didn't help that I changed the color of the words to a deep pink from the chart's original green. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but on the finished piece, all that "red" is a little hard on the eyes.
I know that I won't ever want to stitch this piece again ... anyone want to buy a nice used chart?
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I framed this piece myself with two tones of blue, in a white wooden frame with no glass. All framing supplies bought at Old America store in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
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