my own work

This I made for someone very special, with great love:
August 2013

 
I made this for my son, to brighten up his student room in Seville (Spain). With great thanks to Lynn B, Happiness is cross stitching 
March 2013





















Now finished: the Andreas project. (July 2012)

Recent and finished in May 2012: on request of my student son, to upgrade one of the walls of his student-residence! This wall also holds a clock and a barometer and a number of Delft blue tiles with aphorisms. He asked me to make a cross stitch picture of the most fussy one there is.

The text in English:
From the concert
of life
nobody receives
a program

The border I designed myself and I am very pleased with the result.


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My own work started with finishing the last cross stitch project by my mother. She had started it herself by making the diagonal band from top left to down right. As I can see now, she started it as a back cover theme, but I am not sure about that.

A lot of time later I stumbled upon her bag with the cross stitching things inside and wanted to DO something with it, and I just started out cross stitching without any idea what to make of it.
Eventually I tried to make a Large Square with Triangles, Squares, Diamonds and Parallellograms.

After finishing this first project, I tried to make an Excel file in which I could create my new project. I made the file and even succeeded in making the cross stichting thing. It took 2 years to finish, but it IS, look at the picture!






After that, I made the Arrow project. Puzzeling with the Excel file for days, I finally got it right on the computer. But to make it to cross stitching reality it took me a 2 years and a very relaxing holidays in Serres, France, to finish it. Bit I did.

Now I was very motivated to go on cross stitching. I had made this plan some time ago but was not very satisfied with it.
In the original Excel file it looks a little bit "tuttig" (Dutch word for dowdy).
I started to make it anyway and because I made some crucial counting faults it turned much less tuttig.

Started out as a try to reproduce one of my favourite cushions of my mother. After she finished the original she gave it to me because I liked it so much, and I made a cushion of it.

My mother herself had had other plans with the embroidery.
The upper part of the pattern is a remake of the original she made to protect the arm rest of her couch while she was embroidering (this is really true). The pattern was based on the colours and patterns of the cloth of her new couch.

Because I feared never to finish this project after 8 years, I brought in some mountains in the lower part, thanks to the idea of my daughter Francis .
The project was finished in 2010.