Done!!!
After almost exactly half a year of working on it the giant cross stitch picture (97x42 cm) finally got finished yesterday:
I remain unimpressed with the cross-stitch set, the colours of the preprint on the cloth that were hard to tell apart *and* shine through if you look closely, the lack of a picture of the actual *stitched* motif, and the rather random seeming amounts of yarn - of some there wasn’t enough and I had to use some of my stash, and of some I now have more than half of it left over. I basically finished out of pure stubbornness. ;-) I don’t think I’ll buy a set with preprint anytime soon again, if it’s this ambiguous I find stitching from a clear chart more relaxing.
I remain unimpressed with the cross-stitch set, the colours of the preprint on the cloth that were hard to tell apart *and* shine through if you look closely, the lack of a picture of the actual *stitched* motif, and the rather random seeming amounts of yarn - of some there wasn’t enough and I had to use some of my stash, and of some I now have more than half of it left over. I basically finished out of pure stubbornness. ;-) I don’t think I’ll buy a set with preprint anytime soon again, if it’s this ambiguous I find stitching from a clear chart more relaxing.