embroidery: Christmas tree

[kate_nepveu]

So I finished my second embroidery project a lot quicker than the first, partly because it was much simpler and partly because I did a fair bit of work on it on the cruise while doing podcast-catchup.

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This was from a kit, except that I changed the green from backstitch to stem stitch, for aesthetic reasons and because I like stem stitch. Unfortunately I did not love the stitching process; the pattern used unnecessarily similar colors and my needle was too small, which I didn't realize until I read this blog post about halfway through stitching. (I don't know if I was using the needle that came with the kit or not.) Collectively this meant a lot of picking out stitches with attendant frustration.

But, it's done and doesn't look bad even to my excessively critical eye. And I've already started my next project, this absolutely beautiful fall tree, which is a significant step in up materials and complexity for me. I love it immensely and am so excited to be working on it.

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[kate_nepveu]

yeah, I had no idea either--what starting with cross-stitch does--and it was so great to realize that the snarls and fuzzing were _fixable_! or at least could be greatly reduced.