Lately, I've been in a bit of a mood to just start things I've had for some time instead of saving them forever. Even if that leaves me with a couple more WIPs than I've been known to be comfortable with, what difference does it make whether it's a WIP or just sitting in my stash?
One of those projects was Queen of the Pirates, or Pirate Lady, as I lovingly call her. I've had this pattern custom made from some artwork on deviantArt that was used in one of my favourite songs on Youtube at the time. In case you are wondering, I did ask the artest for permission, which I got, but they have since deactivated their account on devianArt, so I can't link to the original artwork. The pattern was charted by the wonderful Ashley from Make it Pink, I loved it, and...just never got around to it. I even found the perfect fabric and got all the floss!
Well, in December I finally decided this was going to get started, NOW. I got side tracked a bit with my crazy Christmas present project, but have lately picked her back up and here we are, 10 hours in.
As you can see, I started right with the most important part - her face! And it's stitching up really nicely, I'm always impressed by how smooth Ashley's use of fractional stitches makes her patterns.
So as this is a one of a kind project, here's the pattern mockup to give you an idea of where we are at. I'll try and work my way up next and then I am pretty tempted by that parrot!
I am actually really enjoying working on her, so you might see her again soon-ish...but there might well be a couple more projects coming up in the near future!
No comments:
Post a Comment