Love Comforteth

The picture for Zacchaeus is off to a slow start, mostly because my OCD is showing when it comes to gridding out the design. It would be helpful if I had giant pieces of graph paper, as well as a drafting table that wasn't covered in other stuff (and technically, the drafting table isn't mine). I can't help being a little uptight about the spacing of the design, since I ended up having to restitch at least two of the letters on Alexa's due to misplacement.

In the meantime, I thought I would post one of my older works. This dates from 1998, and despite the complexity, I think I stitched the entire thing in about a month. Clearly I had too much free time when I was doing my engineering co-op at Kimberly-Clark that spring! The design is by Mary Engelbreit, and I was really pleased with the overall result. I have two books full of her designs, of which I think I've completed four. The fifth, intended for me, is one of the aforementioned stuffed-in-a-bag-in-a-closet projects.