I suspect I may even have the same book that the Australian alphabet came out of. It's one of the ones that I can't get to, but it sounds very familiar. I used a different alphabet (the one with the birds) for the cushions I made for my parents.
I have so many books it's not funny!
If I hadn't already stitched a birth sampler for Sam (unframed, but I ran across it earlier and may just take a picture and add it to the collection some time soon) I'd be tempted to throw in something like that on the square. I know if I was talking about this with my MIL, she'd suggest I design my own thing - I don't have that skill!
I may just have to hassle my DH to get my bookshelf finished so I can get at my other books... or just move a few boxes around so I can get at some of them to have a sticky beak at the other designs I have.
But yeah, I'm also thinking option 2 - I think having it all spread out sideways, but squished up and down would look odd. I was leaning towards option 1 before I started working with measurements, but now that I've done some number crunching, it really does have to be option 2.
Just a thought Ness - go for the decision now for a quilt instead of quilt cover, then you can make it non-standard size. I say this cause I always like more overhang on a bedcover, and it would give you more room around the edges maybe?
Your work is amazing - I managed to stuff up my first cross-stitch when I was ironing the canvas! Before starting work on it!
Last edited by Kazbah; October 25th, 2010 at 11:14 PM.
I guess I'm a bit reluctant to lock myself into something that MUST be a quilt. If I get half way through and then decide that it's too hard, I can still have it become a quilt cover fairly easy. But if I get half way through and decide that a quilt is too hard and I can't get someone to help with the quilting side of things and it's a non-standard size, I'm pretty much stuck and will never finish it.
Does anyone have thoughts on repeating the one picture panel at the beginning and end of the alphabet? Or would it really be best if I find a design that will work with two different pictures?
would a quilt equate to a double bed size?
i always go up a size in bed covers (so have king on queen, queen on double) so maybe if you aim for a quilt but make it into a doona cover later...?
Overlock or put a zigzag stitch around the edges. Best way I know of to stop it.
I ordered the fabric to do the cross stitch today. It should arrive in a few days. The online store I get most of my cross stitch supplies from was having a very short 25% off sale so I jumped on it. They are much cheaper than everywhere else, even before the sale.
I'll be working on 28 count jobelan evenweave - it's just a bit softer than aida... and the pattern has tonnes of fractional stitches so will work better on an evenweave fabric rather than aida cloth.
Now a double bed sized project just seems way too daunting! Perhaps later, when this one is done, which will likely end up a queen-sized one for our own bed.
In the album linked before I have added a picture of the alphabet sampler I'm planning to use, just so people can get a better idea of what I'm talking about.
Still trying to figure out how I can throw in a diagram (to scale, of course!) of my proposed layout.
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