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Feb. 3rd, 2006 10:42 amLast night, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ivy03 returned my Battlestar Galactica season one DVDs, and roommate Lisa started in with the miniseries after aborted writing group (shame on us all, not having anything!). Since I had no interest in Slayers, I went to watch BSG with Lisa. We got through about the first half of the miniseries.
( Were they ever this little? (BSG non-spoilery for the miniseries) )
Also, while we were watching the miniseries, I started up my long-neglected cross-stitch. Turns out I'd managed to get done a lot more of the back-stitching (which is basically stitching on lines to give shapes definition) than I'd realized. Then I actually started stitching and saw that, no matter how much was already done, there was still A LOT to do. The pattern is a samurai, and his pants have these dragonflies on them that I have to outline the wings with little loops. Half the loops are one color, and half of that color had already been done. It still took me an hour and a half of the BSG miniseries to finish that one color. There's two more colors to do, then some edging at the bottom that will require beads, more detail on the samurai's face, and outlines of the tree branches in the back. My estimate is 10 hours to finishing, if I am really lucky and get the beading and the cords on his swords done right the first time. If not, 15 hours.
15 bloody hours, I ask you. 15 hours for the most painful, least fun, yet most necessary part of cross-stitching. You could seriously skimp on the cross-stitch stitches, but if you don't have the backstitch, it's just a blob of color for the most part, even on something as huge as the samurai (he's about 15"x10"). Oh, here's a picture (you'll have to click to enlarge it, or you won't see it in its ::cough:: glory), and apparently he's actually 18"x12". Yippie.
ivy03 returned my Battlestar Galactica season one DVDs, and roommate Lisa started in with the miniseries after aborted writing group (shame on us all, not having anything!). Since I had no interest in Slayers, I went to watch BSG with Lisa. We got through about the first half of the miniseries.( Were they ever this little? (BSG non-spoilery for the miniseries) )
Also, while we were watching the miniseries, I started up my long-neglected cross-stitch. Turns out I'd managed to get done a lot more of the back-stitching (which is basically stitching on lines to give shapes definition) than I'd realized. Then I actually started stitching and saw that, no matter how much was already done, there was still A LOT to do. The pattern is a samurai, and his pants have these dragonflies on them that I have to outline the wings with little loops. Half the loops are one color, and half of that color had already been done. It still took me an hour and a half of the BSG miniseries to finish that one color. There's two more colors to do, then some edging at the bottom that will require beads, more detail on the samurai's face, and outlines of the tree branches in the back. My estimate is 10 hours to finishing, if I am really lucky and get the beading and the cords on his swords done right the first time. If not, 15 hours.
15 bloody hours, I ask you. 15 hours for the most painful, least fun, yet most necessary part of cross-stitching. You could seriously skimp on the cross-stitch stitches, but if you don't have the backstitch, it's just a blob of color for the most part, even on something as huge as the samurai (he's about 15"x10"). Oh, here's a picture (you'll have to click to enlarge it, or you won't see it in its ::cough:: glory), and apparently he's actually 18"x12". Yippie.
