The Pink has survived the trip over to the wilds of England so I think I am safe to (finally) post this! First of all, if you do not know who Pusheen is, she is an adorable jiggly cat created by the talented Clare Belton and Andrew Duff. She can be found
here in all her squishy glory! For my stitch, I used a combination of
this image and
this image plus a few creative liberties.
As a little bit of background, some friends from waaaay back in the day of online anime chatrooms got married recently! He (and she!) is a crafty sort of person and she (and he?!) likes Sailor Moon. By their powers combined, they get... Sailor Moon Pusheen Cross Stitch! This piece was (apart from the lace, ribbon, and a skein of light effects) stitched and finished entirely from stash. I managed to use up almost two skeins of pink. Geh.
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| staring down your soul |
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| The Pink, started. |
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| lovely hoop marks |
At this point, I had started to question my sanity with stitching this much pink.
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| adding the lace |
I had a hard time figuring out how exactly I wanted to finish this piece since it would be traveling so far. I was originally going to have it framed with a cute heart mat but that's an awful long way to travel with glass! Sooo I decided on a somewhat simple lace edge with a felt backing. The lace wound up hiding and binding the cross stitch fabric (you can sort of see how I was folding the edge down on this picture) and the felt hid the back. I realize now that I forgot to take a picture of the back of my stitching -- a shame because it's probably the neatest I've EVER had a back. It looked almost exactly like the front!
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| finished in the sunlight |
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| are you ready for your close up? |
I was tickled pink(?!) at finding this ribbon to make a little hanging loop in the same color as the rest of the glorious pink.
Technical Details- "Pusheen Love" chart by rosey175, Pusheen belongs to Clare Belton/Andrew Duff
- 2 over 1 on 14-(18?-)count white Aida, approximately 8,000 stitches.
- Finished size: would you believe I forgot to measure before shipping?! I will guess 9"x7" haha.
- Started: May ??, 2014, Finished: August 24, 2014. Unknown hours.
My lesson (hopefully) learned from this piece is to stop putting off finishing things! I was scared of the lace at first -- it took about half an hour to attach. Then I was worried about attaching the whole thing to the felt -- it also took about half an hour. Weeks of being scared for a whole hour of remarkably smooth and simple stitching!
sigh...
Anyway, hope y'all are much more brave with your stitching! I need to go figure out just what I'm stitching for MMMM.
