I decided to make a needlepoint lace image of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. I envisaged it taking me a week, but it was more like 2 and a bit, working through break and lunch times too.
Here is its progression from quite late on.
I am most pleased with the outcome. There has been a bit of a distortion, so it is now as similar to Sutcliffe as one of his photofits. But I am proud. I am not going to do anything so time consuming again this project, as I only have 5 weeks left, and I would loose a lot of time that way.
The red it quite eye catching. I originally wanted to do the whole thing in red, with a different stitch for the paler parts of the image, bit unfortunately that didn't work well, as you couldn't see the edges and had to re do the middle in off white thread. Now it is more of a functional net to hold the red in place.
I am so happy though.
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