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Thriin — The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
Published: 2015-08-01 16:41:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 3439; Favourites: 161; Downloads: 60
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A cross stitch kit from the Maia collection by Anchor. Ok, my french knots are really far from perfect but oh well, I can always hope I'll get better at them with timeRelated content
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I think your french knots are pretty good. It's so hard to get them uniform
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thank you! even at best of times I could make a row of quite good ones and then spent lots of tries to make another one, and seems like I lost experience, cos I didn't have to make any and now needed to make few in a hamster pattern and it was quite a fight
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A wonderful piece of art!
I had no idea stitching (forgive me) could have such clear results. (I probably was denying it)
Keep up the great work!
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awww thank you!! this one turned out really striking, if I can say so myself
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Did you know thta the author of the wood paintings sold them to turists?
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yes, I know, also sadly he was never too popular, or recognized in Japan, I suppose still isn't and not much of his works were therefor saved for future generations.
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You are like a cross stitching master..... How is this not a DD!?
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OMG thnak you!! but I think x-stitch is really an easy hobby, one just have to stick up to the chart
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Well, hobby or not, beautiful craftsmanship.
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thank you!! yes, I like how it turned up-if I can say so myself
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awwww thannk you! yes, the friend of mine and her mother to whom I made this love the asian themes too
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That's really great! I am always surprised by your high technique.
Keep it up!
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Absolutely stunning! You did an excellent job
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awwwwwwwwww thank you!!
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awww thank you! yes, the colours were really striking
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I thought this was a wood cut at first glance. Good job.
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This is sooo breathlessly amazing! Maia really has beautiful collections. The Asian inspirations always get me (^_^). You did a really lovely job and the french knots look great from here! How big was this project? How long did it take you?
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awwww thank you!! I'm really happy you like it! yes, Maias are great, I have four more in my stash three of them Asian This one is 20x30cm(about 7"x11") on 16ct fabric and it took me 7weeks-while making the first half I thought it will take much longer cos I felt like I'm progressing only very slowly but the second half I've done quicker than I thought (not that I'm doing those for speed )
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SO pretty! 
And those french knots look good! There are quite a lot of those too!
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awww thank you!! yep, there are loads of those damned things-first thing I spotted when I actually looked at the cover of the kit(I got it as a birthday present last year) and I was like
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Haha I can imagine! 
Was terrified of those knots at first too, but once I got the hang of it, they're alright.
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This is stunning. The multi-sized french knots actually work well since sea sprays are not uniform dots.
The sheer number of those french knots would drive me crazy!
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thank you!! yes, I kept telling this to myself all the time 'they are droplets and no droplets are of the same size'
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It looks wonderful! So pretty!
And don't worry about the french knots, I've been stitching for ages and I literally only started getting them close to right a week ago...
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awww thank you!! and happy to hear of your experience with those damned knots-it gives me hope for the future
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Amazing 
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thank you!! yep, loads of them and the 'glowing' thread I used is kinda more like metalics-doesn't stick together like usual threads which made some of the french knots 'spread' in the way they really shouldn't
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now i know that i won't use glowing hihi but i can't see that on your work,
it's that you tell me or else i would never know 
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I've heard that Kreinik threads-metalics and such are not as difficult to work with as the other brands but I haven't try for myself yet, I have some in a kit I custom ordered from a shop with a HAED pattern but heaven knows when I'll start working on that. no need to say they are also much more expensive(kreiniks, I mean)
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That is good to now, since the metallics i have now are horrible hihi
well if your gonna work on it one day let me know how the threads are
indeed that is only logical
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Wow, great work!
Also Your french knots are good enough ; )
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awwww thank you!! and I'm really happy you think so!
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