Fiesta time!

It's done. And matted, and framed.  Now all that's left is giving it to my mom :)

I had to cut the mat myself since the frame was on the longish side and it's a bit wonky, but hopefully that's not noticed too much. It was my first time doing it, so I tried doing it first with some fiskars cutting tool thingy but that wasn't working so well.  I ended up going to Joann's to get a mat cutter, and that worked SO much better.

Last night, I'd finished the embroidery and ended up using pants hangers with the clips to stretch it by hanging it on opposite sides and letting the weight of one hanger pull out the wrinkles after I sprayed it with water. I didn't really want to cut down the fabric either, so what I ended up doing with that was pretty effective in stretching it taut also. I pulled the sides over the back of the frame and sewed it back and forth to stretch the linen across and iron it out.  Then, since that made it pretty messy I used some brown paper from a roll that we have laying around, to glue it to the back of the frame and cover up all the fabric and thread, and general messiness.

Look on for detailed shots, they're kinda dark because for one, I took them at night, and secondly, they're mounted against the dark tan of the back of the frame. Had I had it to do all over again, I would've either gotten thicker linen, or doubled up two pieces of fabric against each other because it was so sheer.

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What do you think? Now I can get back to crocheting!

Comments

[CraftyAshley]

Congrats! It turned out great! I bet your Mom will love it!

[Josefin]

They look great! How happy your mum will be! :D

[Silver Ilix]

Wow, that looks great. I love How clean your stitching is.... you really are a colon! (from that earlier post)

[erinberry]

This is so beautiful - I love it!

[elif]

Hi from Turkiye,
I love cross stitch very much and these designs, too.
Here is my blog for you to look at mine.
Bye..
www.elfeyp.blogspot.com

[La Mañosa]

Wow, this embroidery is just beautiful. I'm sure your mother loved it. I've done some cross stitch and would like to try framing it but have been a little intimidated. It's nice to see that it can be done!

By the way, I love your crochet designs!