I'm struggling with Prairie Life Sampler. The design is beautiful and I fell in love with it when I first saw it but, for me, it looks crowded and cluttered. Here's a photo of the cover.
I don't like stitching fiddly stuff. I think the horses, the dog and those people and whatever they're holding -- all that looks fiddly and a bit cluttered to me.
Denise changed hers for that row and it looks great. You can see it here.
I'm thinking of taking a really lazy way out. Here's my plan:
1. Totally leave off the band that has the horses, covered wagon and people.
2. I feel like the words are too close and crowded so I've re-charged those to take up 5 rows with one extra row between them. That would take up some of the space where the horses and people are.
3. In order to use up more space, I'm going to stitch three rows of grass beneath the trees instead of just one.
4. I will leave an extra row (or two) above and below the squiggly line below the text.
5. Because I already have the border stitched, I can't (or won't) make any changes to it but, in that bottom band, I will stitch the very bottom area first (flower baskets) and move them up a row or two so they aren't sitting so close to the border. Some of that "stuff" above the flowers, I will just leave off
My plans may not work. I figure this piece will either get finished, get tossed or go into time out (forever!). :)
Thoughts?
Here's my plan for now. When I re-charted the text, I didn't really chart every letter. I just counted the spaces and kinda roughly drew it out. I'm going to start in the center of each row and stitch a word or two left and right of center and do that with all five rows.
Then I'm going to stitch a few rows of the squiggly thing beneath the text and see where I end up as far as spacing goes.
I'll keep you posted!
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ReplyDeleteI started that one a few years ago and stopped. It looks like two separate samplers to me. The top part with the trees and cabin and the bottom part with all those little motifs. Hope you can figure out a way to make it work for you
ReplyDeleteSherri from Colorado Cross Stitch showed her work on this piece on one of her floss tubes. In the section with the people and covered wagons, she just made a row of covered wagons and left all of the rest off. I can't remember if she had 4 or five wagons going across but It looked nice. There's a lot of over one in that row, and I just don't want to do it. I also thought that it seemed too "busy".
ReplyDeleteI'm going to see if I can find Sheri's pictures. That sounds interesting. I have enough to keep me busy through Sunday with this project so I'm not going to think too much about it - save that for next time I work on it.
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