Eeeee!!!!

[rivka]

Cross Stitch Collectibles has finally made a pattern for my favorite M.C. Escher picture.

Must. Finish. Current. Project. First.
Must. Finish. Current. Project. First.
Must...

Updated to add: Oh my God. Tell me I would have to be insane to do this one.

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[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

56 colors?! That's insane!

(Was that what you were looking for? I am, of course, trying to be helpful, as is my nature.)

(Yeah, right.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Five years at 100 stitches per day. That's what I keep telling myself. But it's so pretty...

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. Tell me I would have to be insane to do this one.

During the first episode of Manor House, the Butler wore two pair of glasses (to emulate bifocals, I'm assuming, though those *were* around in 1905. Maybe they were too expensive...but I digress) while reading something...if you stitched that one, you'd need at least three pair of glasses...bifocaled or not. *grin*

But, it *is* gorgeous.

Gessi

[melebeth]

Are you MAD woman?????!!!!!

:)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

MMmmmmmaybe...

[melebeth]

You want to know the worst part? YOu got MEEEEE shopping on that blasted site. But I must resist. I've been working on my unicorn tapestry for over 15 years

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

If you weren't when you started, you would be before you finished. (Is that a Klimt?)

MKK

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a Klimt. I really wish they had this picture in the smaller size - curiousangel did the math and figured out that it would be 189,000 stitches, which seems a bit daunting. But maybe it's too detailed for the smaller number of stitches.

In its favor is the fact that I enjoy doing the stitching more than I enjoy having the finished project. Still, if I averaged a hundred stitches a day, it would take me five years to finish...

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

OK.

You'd have to be insane to do that one.

But such a beautiful insanity...

amazing cross stitch

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

wow. the world of needlecrafts sure has changed since they taught me in school -- i hated it then, mostly because i hated the grandmotherly (for my own value of grandmother) patterns. though it might have also been way too fiddly for me at the time. but man, those are gorgeous. not that i could see myself do the klimt, mind. have you ever actually done anything like this? it's probably still way too fiddly for me, and my eyes would not cooperate. but wow. awesome.

of course now i am thinking that creating the patterns itself by software wouldn't be hard to do at all, though matching existing thread colours from various manufacturers would be a bit extra work for creating lookup tables. these patterns, do they do that for you? (yes, i am a geek, why do you ask?) it would be real cool to be able to make one's own so one can pick whatever one likes instead of waiting for somebody else to create it.

Re: amazing cross stitch

[rivka.livejournal.com]

There's software you can buy that turns any picture into a cross stitch pattern, coded by color numbers for whichever of the main thread manufacturers you choose.

My understanding is, though, that a purely mechanical conversion doesn't produce the best results - there's a process of cleanup and simplification that's best done by a person who adapts the computer-generated pattern for actual stitching.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Why don't you get the Escher now, and after you've done that 40,000 plus stitch effort you can think about whether or not you want to tackle the much larger one. (Whether it'd be insanity or not I can't say, but it would be a gawdawful lot of work.)

[geekchick]

I'm debating now whether I'm inspired enough to do Starry Night. I think doing the Klimt would indeed require at least some amount of insanity. =)

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's only 49,000 stitches. You can do it!

[geekchick]

49,000 stitches and 90 colors... I could probably finish it sometime around my 70th birthday. ;)

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

the klimpt is beautiful.

of course, i'm not biased even though i'm completely obessed with death & life images.

actually, i'm thinking of working on a spirit flag this summer. this is a haitian art form (here's an example) where beads and sequins are sewn onto fabric. usually satin. i want to do a life filled death image. per usual :)

"n"

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me, let me guess. You don't have any form of ADD, do you?

Be an impressive thing to be able to show having done, though.

*only* 56 colors??

[txanne.livejournal.com]

That's not insanity at all! Plus that company doesn't use fractional stitches or backstitching, and I don't think they use blended colors either. So no, you're not crazy.

Remember, all XS, no matter how fancy the chart is, boils down to " Needle goes up, needle goes down. Needle goes up, needle goes down. "

Signed,
the crazy woman who owns almost every Teresa Wentzler chart and has never finished a single one. You don't have to *do* the piece, you just have to buy the chart!!!

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Oooo! (I actually squee'd when I saw that)

...and no, I can not can not can not buy any of those. I STILL have a Teresa Wentzler (?) dragon tapestry on black cloth that I started way back in MIDDLE SCHOOL.

Am I ever gonna finish that?

Ha.

So. Can not buy any of those. I'd go stark ravin' bonkers.

*sits with rivka in the "Must not buy!" corner*

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

It's only 56 colors. Straight cross-stitch, no fractionals or blended colors. No beading. C'mon, you can do it!