Friday 30 October 2015

A UFO finish!!!

Hello Everyone!

I'm doing a very happy dance over here in Sweden!!

Why??

Well, tonight I have finished my Swedish Santa UFO that I started over ten years ago!!!

I decided to stitch on it today as part of my Friday Frolicing , and it looked like this when I started stitching on it midday . . .


So I finished the sky and did some backstitched tree outlines and other missing bits of backstitch . Eventually I couldn't find any more missing stitches so here it is , AT LAST :


You may remember that I struggled with what to do about the Santas facial features . . . The original chart was not very precise , and when I tried to stitch the eyes etc following the chart it just looked horrible ! So then I thought I'd just leave out the details of the face . . . However , today I decided to try to add something to the face, so I stitched one eye and a happy mouth . I'm actually quite pleased with how his face turned out and it definitely looks better than on the original chart : )


So once again , here is another look at my FINISHED Swedish Santa picture that I started to stich over ten years ago , when I still lived in England . The chart is from a Swedish magazine dated 2003 so it is about time , wouldn't you say ? !


I feel really good about this finish : = )

Hope you all have a good weekend filled with stitching!

Annie

7 comments:

  1. Congrats on the job well done! I think the face looks very good, I wouldn't have guessed you made it up yourself:)

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  2. Such a great finish, Annie. Congratulations. IT looks gorgeous and I love what you were doing with little Santa's face. Good idea.

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  3. What a great finish! And it is finally done! Yay!

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  4. Amazing piece of stitching - just in time for this years festivities - well done on another finish.

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  5. Congrats on the beautiful finish Annie. His face looks great.

    Linda

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  6. Congrats it looks great! The facial features are very well done.

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  7. Congrats on another lovely christmas finish. Swedish Santa is so unique!

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