And another is finished!
In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March second, I began stitching another embroidery for the Children’s Book Quilt, from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish:
My version is a little sleepy compared to the original, but I’m quite pleased with it. There may be a second Dr. Seuss drawing in the final collection… stay tuned.
Back in 1955, Crockett Johnson published Harold and the Purple Crayon, an odd book involving Harold drawing his way through adventures with his trusty purple crayon, with nary a real physical object nor another living creature throughout the book.
Here in 2012, I embroidered an image from the book: Harold in a mostly-drawn hot air balloon. I had the perfect fabric, though it seemed like it would be far too dark, so I bleached it:
I was very pleased the black and yellow did not bleach out as much as the blue did. After stitching, I colored in the moon and one star with gold fabric paint.
I was sure I would be punished for this, but I took an hour out of my workday (or perhaps a little more) the other day to do some cross-stitch. I haven’t done cross-stitch, except as part of a general embroidery project, in a long time. I wanted something small, but fortunately I have a good library of patterns for small images. I ended up with a design modified from one in 2001 Cross Stitch Designs by Better Homes & Gardens.
When I say small, I mean small. I discovered as soon as I started to stitch that I had made some tactical oversights – in particular, stitching over one strand on 28-count Monaco does not allow for half stitches. However, I made some alterations and omissions on the fly and came up with what I think is rather a nice finished product.
