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cross_stitch2012-05-29 12:22 am
amalnahurriyeh) wrote in cross_stitch2012-05-29 12:22 am
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advice on a present
I'm cross-stitching some towels for a friend's wedding present. I'm dithering however, about some design choices, and how they interact with time's endless forward march.
The towels in question are for a friend who got married in April, and whose wedding we could not attend. I am seeing said friend at the wedding for *another* friend (I'm thirty, this apparently happens) this coming weekend, for the first time since her wedding. Therefore, it would make sense to give her the towels then. It would *also* make sense to give the friend getting married this coming weekend the towels I am going to make for her! PROBLEM: I have not started them. Hence, the time issues. (For the record, my wife is also crocheting coasters for both couples. And she is not done either, but she can do six coasters in a day if she puts her fingers to it.)
My original plan was to make two towels with the same multi-part design for April Wedding Friend. Today, I finished part 1 of towel 1, and I'm trying to decide how to proceed.
Close-up of the stitching. The motif is in the Assisi style, otherwise known as "voided technique," and can I just say those are the best names for styles? Here's a page with some history. Here's the pattern. The pattern is not perfectly symmetrical, but I think I made it moreso in stitching it, because I'm like that.
And here are two photos of it in context on the towel (folded in half on the top one, and in thirds on the second).
My original plan was going to be to put two of these cranes on either side of the motif in the center, because their wedding invitations had cranes. I was going to work those in light blue, with the grass in dark blue, and backstitch the motif in the light blue.
However, now I'm wondering if I can:
1) Only give them one towel with the planned pattern,
2) Give them one towel with the heart, and another with two cranes,
3) Given them two towels with the heart motif, or
4) I should just suck it up and do the pattern as planned, because that's the only way it won't look sad.
What do you think, oh more experienced stitchers? I also can easily bag finishing June Wedding Friend's towel until, well, in the car on the way home from her wedding, and put it in the mail to arrive at her house after her honeymoon.
Opinions? What would you do?
The towels in question are for a friend who got married in April, and whose wedding we could not attend. I am seeing said friend at the wedding for *another* friend (I'm thirty, this apparently happens) this coming weekend, for the first time since her wedding. Therefore, it would make sense to give her the towels then. It would *also* make sense to give the friend getting married this coming weekend the towels I am going to make for her! PROBLEM: I have not started them. Hence, the time issues. (For the record, my wife is also crocheting coasters for both couples. And she is not done either, but she can do six coasters in a day if she puts her fingers to it.)
My original plan was to make two towels with the same multi-part design for April Wedding Friend. Today, I finished part 1 of towel 1, and I'm trying to decide how to proceed.
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| From yarncrafts |
Close-up of the stitching. The motif is in the Assisi style, otherwise known as "voided technique," and can I just say those are the best names for styles? Here's a page with some history. Here's the pattern. The pattern is not perfectly symmetrical, but I think I made it moreso in stitching it, because I'm like that.
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| From yarncrafts |
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| From yarncrafts |
And here are two photos of it in context on the towel (folded in half on the top one, and in thirds on the second).
My original plan was going to be to put two of these cranes on either side of the motif in the center, because their wedding invitations had cranes. I was going to work those in light blue, with the grass in dark blue, and backstitch the motif in the light blue.
However, now I'm wondering if I can:
1) Only give them one towel with the planned pattern,
2) Give them one towel with the heart, and another with two cranes,
3) Given them two towels with the heart motif, or
4) I should just suck it up and do the pattern as planned, because that's the only way it won't look sad.
What do you think, oh more experienced stitchers? I also can easily bag finishing June Wedding Friend's towel until, well, in the car on the way home from her wedding, and put it in the mail to arrive at her house after her honeymoon.
Opinions? What would you do?