Here's a Christmas gift I started working on earlier this month, or is it a birthday gift? I haven't decided yet. It's for my nephew, Logan. Recently his bedroom decor has changed from his baby jungle theme to a fire engine theme. I found this firefighter's sampler when my sister told me of the change. But I was not going to stitch the entire alphabet. I was just going to stitch the letters of his name.
When I received the pattern I found it was an incredibly old hand written pattern. I decided to digitize it to make it easier on me when stitching. I also found that I didn't like the letters as they were. Both the L and the O had Dalmatians, the G had boots that kind of looked like ski boots, and the A had a firefighter with an axe, but it was difficult at first glance to tell what it was. Also, none of the letters in his name had a fire engine in them. So I went to work on doing some altering.
The first letter I stitched was the G. I took the original G and made it a little bit wider. Then I took the fire engine from the Q and put it behind the the G I made, then filled in the blanks on the engine left by the now absent Q. I took these pictures in the same way I took the pictures for the 12 Dragonlets of Christmas. So, first up is just the letter G stitched.
Now, all the rest of the colors, the colors of the fire engine.
And now for the backstitching.
I'm quite proud of my rework on this one. I also added color to the windows (half cross stitches), the yellow + and the squares in the middle of the hubcaps.
Next up is the O. This is the only letter that I did not modify at all. Here's the O first.
And this is the one with the dalmatian that I kept.
And here he is with the backstitching.
Project Stats:
Pattern: Firefighter Logan
Pattern by: Firefighter's Sampler
Started Stitching: October 11, 2013
Fabric: 28ct. White Evenweave
Floss: DMC 2 over 2, or 1 over 2 Kreinick #4 Braid
Percentage: 35.41% complete
Stitches: 1,478 out of 4,173 complete
Two of the remaining letters have been entirely altered, the other I only altered the colors. I seem to be missing two of the colors, I'll just pick those up tomorrow at work though. I also have a border that will go along the bottom, that matches the new bedding, drapes and pillows my sister ordered. You'll see more soon.
The first letter I stitched was the G. I took the original G and made it a little bit wider. Then I took the fire engine from the Q and put it behind the the G I made, then filled in the blanks on the engine left by the now absent Q. I took these pictures in the same way I took the pictures for the 12 Dragonlets of Christmas. So, first up is just the letter G stitched.
Now, all the rest of the colors, the colors of the fire engine.
And now for the backstitching.
Next up is the O. This is the only letter that I did not modify at all. Here's the O first.
And this is the one with the dalmatian that I kept.
And here he is with the backstitching.
Project Stats:
Pattern: Firefighter Logan
Pattern by: Firefighter's Sampler
Started Stitching: October 11, 2013
Fabric: 28ct. White Evenweave
Floss: DMC 2 over 2, or 1 over 2 Kreinick #4 Braid
Percentage: 35.41% complete
Stitches: 1,478 out of 4,173 complete
Two of the remaining letters have been entirely altered, the other I only altered the colors. I seem to be missing two of the colors, I'll just pick those up tomorrow at work though. I also have a border that will go along the bottom, that matches the new bedding, drapes and pillows my sister ordered. You'll see more soon.
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