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Posted by anne on June 11, 2009, 7:58 am
dianne@heritageshoppe.com says...
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> I don't know what size these faces are, but to me that would be rather
> ghostly. Of course, maybe that's the affect you want.
Different strokes for different folks ;-)
One of the first pieces I did when I started stitching again was several
fairies from a Dover book. I had great fun doing everything except the faces.
The faces turned out ghastly!!! Maybe I didn't choose good colors for outline
and features coupled with using more than one strand of floss or maybe the
faces were just plain ugly from the git go. I never hung the finished piece and
just recently decided to use the frame for something else. I actually threw the
stitching away. Do I hear a collective gasp?
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I bought Sophisticated Lady <http://www.jdr-be.com/JDR6018.htm> I wanted to
practise working with edmar threads but hated the face as drawn. Thanks to
Christine Hause's tip about Biz removing printed lines, I've got a faceless
lady that doesn't look quite as evil as she could've.
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Posted by Dianne Lewandowski on June 11, 2009, 9:29 am
anne wrote:
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> dianne@heritageshoppe.com says...
>> I don't know what size these faces are, but to me that would be rather
>> ghostly. Of course, maybe that's the affect you want.
>
> Different strokes for different folks ;-)
>
> One of the first pieces I did when I started stitching again was several
> fairies from a Dover book. I had great fun doing everything except the faces.
> The faces turned out ghastly!!! Maybe I didn't choose good colors for outline
> and features coupled with using more than one strand of floss or maybe the
> faces were just plain ugly from the git go. I never hung the finished piece
and
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> just recently decided to use the frame for something else. I actually threw
the
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> stitching away. Do I hear a collective gasp?
>
> I bought Sophisticated Lady <http://www.jdr-be.com/JDR6018.htm> I wanted to
> practise working with edmar threads but hated the face as drawn. Thanks to
> Christine Hause's tip about Biz removing printed lines, I've got a faceless
> lady that doesn't look quite as evil as she could've.
>
You always do such interesting pieces!
Dianne
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Posted by Dawne Peterson on June 11, 2009, 11:19 am
"anne" wrote
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> Different strokes for different folks ;-)
> One of the first pieces I did when I started stitching again was several
> fairies from a Dover book. I had great fun doing everything except the
> faces.
> The faces turned out ghastly!!! Maybe I didn't choose good colors for
> outline
> and features coupled with using more than one strand of floss or maybe the
> faces were just plain ugly from the git go. I never hung the finished
> piece and
> just recently decided to use the frame for something else. I actually
> threw the
> stitching away. Do I hear a collective gasp?
> I bought Sophisticated Lady <http://www.jdr-be.com/JDR6018.htm> I wanted
> to
> practise working with edmar threads but hated the face as drawn. Thanks to
> Christine Hause's tip about Biz removing printed lines, I've got a
> faceless
> lady that doesn't look quite as evil as she could've.
I do find that some patterns do a poor job of the face. As Pat pointed out,
the proportion, especially the placement of the eyes, is critical.
Sometimes the perspective shifts, so that a face is in 3/4 view, but the
artist draws a mouth or eye "symbol"--a feature the way they "know" it
looks--rather than the feature as it would be viewed from that angle. I
just redraw them if they bother me and I otherwise like the design, but I
know not everybody is comfortable doing that.
Dawne
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Posted by F.James Cripwell on June 11, 2009, 11:35 am
"Dawne Peterson" (valkyrie@sasktel.net) writes:
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> I do find that some patterns do a poor job of the face. As Pat pointed out,
> the proportion, especially the placement of the eyes, is critical.
> Sometimes the perspective shifts, so that a face is in 3/4 view, but the
> artist draws a mouth or eye "symbol"--a feature the way they "know" it
> looks--rather than the feature as it would be viewed from that angle. I
> just redraw them if they bother me and I otherwise like the design, but I
> know not everybody is comfortable doing that.
>
> Dawne
When I do picture to pattern for my nudes, the thing that decides how big
the picture has to be, is the face. When one looks at different sizes of
pictures, in stitches, then when the face starts losing too much detail as one
goes to progressively smaller sizes, that is the time to stop considering
smaller sizes. Jim.
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Posted by Susan Hartman on June 11, 2009, 12:29 pm
Dawne Peterson wrote:
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> "anne" wrote
>> Different strokes for different folks ;-)
>> One of the first pieces I did when I started stitching again was several
>> fairies from a Dover book. I had great fun doing everything except the
>> faces.
>> The faces turned out ghastly!!! Maybe I didn't choose good colors for
>> outline
>> and features coupled with using more than one strand of floss or maybe the
>> faces were just plain ugly from the git go. I never hung the finished
>> piece and
>> just recently decided to use the frame for something else. I actually
>> threw the
>> stitching away. Do I hear a collective gasp?
>> I bought Sophisticated Lady <http://www.jdr-be.com/JDR6018.htm> I wanted
>> to
>> practise working with edmar threads but hated the face as drawn. Thanks to
>> Christine Hause's tip about Biz removing printed lines, I've got a
>> faceless
>> lady that doesn't look quite as evil as she could've.
> I do find that some patterns do a poor job of the face. As Pat pointed out,
> the proportion, especially the placement of the eyes, is critical.
> Sometimes the perspective shifts, so that a face is in 3/4 view, but the
> artist draws a mouth or eye "symbol"--a feature the way they "know" it
> looks--rather than the feature as it would be viewed from that angle. I
> just redraw them if they bother me and I otherwise like the design, but I
> know not everybody is comfortable doing that.
>
> Dawne
The face is the make-it-or-break-it in my decisions. So many designers
have lovely everything else, but just can't do faces. Often it's because
they're "overdone" - too dark, too detailed. Usually the less detail,
the better, IMHO. That's probably why I don't stitch people much.
Sue
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Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com
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> ghostly. Of course, maybe that's the affect you want.