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\"embroideryinprogress\"<\/a>So, once I’d traced out all my embroidery designs<\/a>\u00a0the fun really started. Incidentally, most of the events of that post occurred over the course of an all-nighter immediately preceding a\u00a0six-hour flight to Albuquerque. The idea was that I needed to get all the tracing done\u00a0so I could start my epic embroidery journey on the plane. What actually happened was that I did all this scrambling\u00a0and then slept all the way to my family reunion, and got maybe one panel embroidered over the whole trip.\u00a0Yeeeeeep.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t know before starting this project that wearing out embroidery needles was a thing you could do. Turns out they get sticky and obnoxious\u00a0to use\u00a0when\u00a0you wear off\u00a0the finish.<\/p><\/div>\n

Taking my cues from that one promotional image you see everywhere<\/a>, I had selected\u00a0a thread one shade darker than the linen for the border design and one shade lighter for the gryphon and scroll motifs. (DMC shades 415\u00a0and 762 respectively). The results are subtle; almost too subtle to read properly when photographed. Up close, though, I think the effect is worth it.<\/p>\n

I didn’t try to get particularly fancy with the embroidery. I filled in the lines as drawn, and tried to be reasonably consistent about the size and direction of my stitches. Dots were rendered as French knots for a bit of texture. Since the motifs were so repetitive I gradually\u00a0settled into an efficient stitching order for each design, and I made some little refinements to my stitch pattern and technique as I went, so the last couple repeats look better than the first few. I don\u2019t think you’d notice much difference without being close enough to wipe your nose on it, though. (Please nobody do that.)<\/p>\n

When I got home from the Albuquerque\u00a0trip, I had less than a month to turn this thing into\u00a0something wearable before I flew out to Seattle for PAX. I bid farewell to any semblance of a social life\u00a0and spent the next two weeks embroidering four or five hours a night, as fast as my hands would go.<\/p>\n

I didn’t\u00a0actually keep track of the exact time I spent, but my iTunes\u00a0library indicates I got through five complete audiobooks totaling about 46 hours, and that doesn\u2019t include any of the work I did during the trip. So probably well\u00a0over fifty hours of embroidery in well under a month. I used six skeins of the dark gray floss and four of light gray, destroyed the finish on four or five embroidery needles, and ate popcorn for dinner more times\u00a0than I should really admit.<\/p>\n

It’s amazing how important things like posture and lighting become under those conditions; I often sit on the floor next to my coffee table but discovered that long shifts of that are a speedy road to eye strain and back pain. Propped on my couch with a task lamp overhead I fared much better.<\/p>\n

I am, well, a bit ridiculously pleased with the way it came out. I make no claims to perfection; in fact I promised myself that if I ended up with extra time I\u2019d rip out the first two scroll designs and redo them. (Spoiler: I didn’t have time.) It’s more the cumulative effect of the thing\u2014like the sheer mass of\u00a0love\u00a0and attention I put into this beast\u00a0outweighs any little irregularities that I would otherwise have been inclined to torture myself over. It’s immensely satisfying, and I think it\u2019s something I’ll be looking for in my future projects.<\/p>\n

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