Paint-By-Numbers With Thread
Apr. 15th, 2008 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljCross-stitch is actually pretty easy, but it does require patience.
I've spent so long adding stitches to this last one, and because it's still in the early stages it just looks like a collection of random dots. Which... doesn't really charge me with enthusiasm.
Plus, whenever people come over, they go "Oh! You're doing a cross-stitch! Can I see?", and I show them, and you can just see the mini double-take as they try to think of a polite way to say "Uh... Is that going to actually look like something eventually? Ever?"
But I persist.
And, last night, I got halfway through one thread, and suddenly looked at it and went "There's his foot. And there's the curve of his back. And that's his hat." And it suddenly looked like a picture!
Of course, from an ordinary person's perspective, it would probably still look like a random collection of dots. You need to be functioning on no sleep and staring at the thing for hours to see the picture. Kind of like one of those posters with the 3D images. But I can see it! And I'm suddenly very motivated to do more.
I've spent so long adding stitches to this last one, and because it's still in the early stages it just looks like a collection of random dots. Which... doesn't really charge me with enthusiasm.
Plus, whenever people come over, they go "Oh! You're doing a cross-stitch! Can I see?", and I show them, and you can just see the mini double-take as they try to think of a polite way to say "Uh... Is that going to actually look like something eventually? Ever?"
But I persist.
And, last night, I got halfway through one thread, and suddenly looked at it and went "There's his foot. And there's the curve of his back. And that's his hat." And it suddenly looked like a picture!
Of course, from an ordinary person's perspective, it would probably still look like a random collection of dots. You need to be functioning on no sleep and staring at the thing for hours to see the picture. Kind of like one of those posters with the 3D images. But I can see it! And I'm suddenly very motivated to do more.
