Have finally got around to getting some better pictures of my Peter cross stitch. The facts and figures of how and what, but no answer to why, can be found here, and his entire saga of creation is detailed earlier in this blog. And so, without further ado, onto some pics of this bastard beauty.


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Six months ago I, in a fit of madness, decided to turn Tim Sale's painting of Peter Petreli from Heroes into a cross stitched piece. To make the nearly 30cm by 30cm piece I used over 118 metres of thread in 29 different colours, and stitched 29,925 stitches. It probably took somewhere in the region of 300 hours to finish.

It seems somewhat ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

About a hundred stitches to go. Really excited to get this finished. Doing a little dance of near-completion right now. (As I'm still sitting typing as I 'dance' it's more like a wiggle.)

And oh my word badge-makers are so much fun, y'all. The postman arrived yesterday just after lunchtime and I only ( Read more... )

About 300 Spartans stitches to go now. Considering this began with tens of thousands to do, that's quite a small number. Even discovering a few secret agent pale pinks and beiges cannot dampen the optimism.

As long as it's finished before Christmas it will have taken less than six months to do. Which still sounds insane in my head, but having never ( Read more... )

The insanity of single stitches of different colours miles from any of their brethren drove me to doing some areas of black which should have been left until last. But I think it saved me from yet another round of whingeing and moaning. And look at the face! And the emo quiff that I love in all its stupid-hair glory! These could well be the reasons ( Read more... )

How did I not notice that this project would be a marathon? I am a fool to myself.

But it inches ever closer to being done and that's something. Also real (fictional) Peter is being less annoying of late and therefore I can feel fonder. And flashback to emo bangs next episode so clearly the world wants me upbeat about flying Petrelliness. I get ( Read more... )

Was somewhat upbeat about this project over the weekend. Then the grump descended. One day I shall finish this. And then I will sell the bastard because I never want to see him again. I think the fact that I want to climb into my telly and punch actual (well, fictional) Peter in the face for being more stupid than Mohinder (which I didn't think was ( Read more... )

I return, ashamed of how little I've done on this piece lately. Admittedly I did have a big family get together (short version: lots o' booze, awesome food, fabulous time had by all) and my final exam ever (short version: yay to questions on Citizen Kane and auteur theory, yay to questions on allegory in science fiction, boo to narrowing the choice ( Read more... )

Have had a few days off this project, due to trying to do some real work and also working on a birthday pressie piece which I shalln't post til it has been gifted. But this is how Peter was looking when I abandoned him last week.

Now that I've had some time to step away the grumpyness is definitely fading. And the nearness of completion is a ( Read more... )

There may be some cautious optimism creeping in to this project. Perhaps.

The coattails are almost done and looking pretty good. And the sky isn't annoying me as much as it previously did. Maybe it seems to be blending better now that more of Peter himself is getting done. I'm getting left with more and more solitary stitches of colour, but it's ( Read more... )