Friday, April 20, 2012

The Statue of Liberty

This is one of those 5 x 5 Dimensions needlepoint kits that I found after we visited the Statue of Liberty with the Girl Scout troop. That was, like, six years ago?? It is mostly stitched with embroidery floss, and I think I will use it as a patch on a bag or purse or something. Or maybe the cover of a needlebook!  As a project, I consider this done - well, as soon as it dries on the blocking pad.

Let's do some math... at 25 square inches, for, about 50 months (it took me a while to find it), that's a half square inch per month; at 14 stitches per inch, that's 196 stitches per square inch, so, with a little rounding, my progress was about 100 stitches per month - about 3 stitches a day. My.

1 comment:

  1. No matter how you do the math, the result is VERY nice!

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