I've now finished the border on the left side of Nellie's Imari. For those of you who thought I'd be done with the whole piece by now, dream on! This is a mighty large canvas!
The next section I'll be working on--the white background on the bottom--is tricky. I have fairly long arms for someone my size, but the canvas is on 20-inch stretcher bars. If I turn the canvas 180 degrees to stitch the area between bottom center and the medallion in the bottom right corner, I can't reach that far. And I can't switch to a scroll frame to finish the piece because the margins aren't that big. Judy Harper stitched everything "in-hand" and could never understand why I bothered with stretcher bars.
So I'll muddle through somehow--I've promised myself to finish all the white background before delving into any more colored thread!
1 comment:
Anne, basketweave is the same right-side up and upside down. I'd turn the canvas around and stitch that bottom border as though it were the top. You only need to worry when the basketweave is continuous, but your canvas has it broken up.
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