Pillow I made for a neighbor's birthday. The cross-stitch design is from Missi at Skeldalehouse. The design is for a large hoop, so I needed to do a little surgery on the sides to fit my 6" x 10" hoop......it stitched out very nicely...over 40,000 stitches.
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25546Well, a nip here and a tuck there made no difference in this little beauty.
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by bobbies41
08 Jan 2014
Yes it was only 2 or 3 rows of vertical X-stitches on the sides and since the design is an oval it really did not make any difference in the overall appearance of the design.
158718I bet she was thrilled - looks lovely! How did you do this "surgery"? delete the stitches somehow or just cut them off? Very brave of you. It really looks wonderful.
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by bobbies41
08 Jan 2014
I did it in my embroidery software "edit". Just deleted 2 or 3 rows of vertical x-stitches on the sides of the design and it did not change the appearance of the design. Only a very small amount of stitches had to be deleted to make the design fit my hoop.
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This is So beautiful...Well done...lovely colours
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66027What a fabulous pillow! This is a fantastic project!
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70755How pretty. I would not have thought to reduce the sides to fit a 6x10 hoop. I hope you have sent a picture to Missie. She will be so pleased. Did you use lace to frame it on the pillow?
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by bobbies41
08 Jan 2014
Yes I am going to send pictures to Missi....with a link to this site so she can see all the nice comments on her design.
Yes I did use lace to frame the embroidery.....I tried many styles and widths of lace and this one seemed to work best.
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86901Gorgeous design, and I Like your color choice. This is very classy looking!
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31625Stunning, I love cross-stitch, one of my favourites. Love Chris
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2345013385It's very pretty!!! What type fabric did you use? I'm sure your neighbor is going to love it! Great job!!!!
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by bobbies41
08 Jan 2014
Thank you........I used a medium to heavy weight cotton fabric.....the kind of fabric you would use for draperies.
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299559This is beautiful. I haven't tried Cross Stitch with Machine embroidery, but just may now.
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