I do have to admit that most of the time I don’t do this. I usually give little or no thought to how something will be finished when I start to stitch. This is not good.
You’ve followed the progress of my San Francisco heart I’ve been making for my daughter. When last I posted I decided to stitch a background making it square. You’d think I would have measured the finished size so I could frame it quickly.
But you’d be wrong.
I decided to finish it for her for Valentine’s Day and bought the only square frame I could find at Michael’s. It was 5″ square and I thought that looked right.
The piece was 4.5″ square and would have a not nice border of unstitched canvas if I finished it the way it was.
But there is so little canvas there I couldn’t add the stitching if I put it on a frame, so I added a little border in another color with the canvas in hand.
I like that now I have the effect of a mat without buying one and I think Maggie will love this reminder of home when she gets it (probably it will arrive tomorrow.
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Janet Perry is the Internet's leading authority on needlepoint. She designs, teaches and writes, getting raves from her fans for her innovative techniques, extensive knowledge and generous teaching style. A leading writer of stitch guides, she blogs here and lives on an island in the northeast corner of the SF Bay with her family
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