A New Kind of Request
Late last year, a previous customer of mine reached out to me, asking if I could make a different kind of portrait that would be extremely special to her.
"Of course!" I responded to her questioning if I could do it. Just because I haven't done something specific you might be wanting, doesn't mean I can't give it a try! So that's what I did for this precious, 4" little hoop. But it wasn't just as simple as grabbing a couple of colours and whipping up some 'x's. Why's that?
The crazy amount of colours used in this portrait!All colours are in DMC floss | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 8 | 21 |
| 310 | 422 | 436 |
| 437 | 451 | 452 |
| 535 | 543 | 729 |
| 738 | 739 | 746 |
| 839 | 869 | 975 |
| 3032 | 3033 | 3371 |
| 3781 | 3782 | 3790 |
| 3829 | 3830 | 3852 |
| 3862 | 3864 | |
| Total colours: | 32! | |
Using the stitch people "farm animals" book as a rough guide, I made a double-sized, edited chicken shape on 14ct Aida floss. And to get that awesome colour gradient?
Well, almost every single cross-stitch on the body was made from combining 3 separate coloured strands of floss. That's why it uses 32 different colours!
This process was a little daunting to begin with, but as I continued, it got easier. And messier on my desk! You can watch a lot of the process it took to achieve this on my YouTube channel , as I streamed myself stitching this piece.
What do you think? What kind of animal would you want to order for yourself? Write a comment below!
