I am becoming increasingly fascinated with the art of cross stitch. It started when Dianne – the boyfriend’s mum – showed me her cross stitching of an old fashioned ‘lady’ – it was the work of 15 years she said. It felt like a tapestry, and you could tell how much work had gone in to the detailing. it got me thinking of how I’d like to do some cross stitching, but instead of doing twee old fashioned depiction i.e.
(though i do like the butterflies)
I’d like to do something more shocking, kinda like this, but better, and a little less icky.
I mean I like these, but they’re so predictable.
These however are certainly not the sort of thing you imagine when someone says ‘cross stitch.’ I can’t remember where i found them, but they are rather amazing, non? i could not believe they’d been sewn at first, but if you look at the second image, it’s clearer.
I guess that really, cross stitch is just an early hand rendered version of pixel art!
