Gondor Shirt

[allisona.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea for a LJ community, Dreamflower! I have a few photos I can share. Here's the first one. I first stitched the design on this shirt to wear it to "The Gathering of the Fellowship" convention in Toronto back in December 2003. No Gondorian tree patterns existed at the time, so I just blew up a photo of Pippin in uniform on my computer screen, taped a piece of cross-stitch graph paper to the screen and made a rough trace of the tree design. I fine-tuned it as I stitched. The stitching was done with a grey and silver blended thread.

Comments

[dreamflower]

Welcome, Alisona!

That's beautiful! I'm not sure Arwen would have done as beautiful a job on Aragorn's banner!

What were the threads per inch, if I may ask?

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it! Love your work, too. I plan to take a closer look at it when I have more time tomorrow.

The pattern above was done with a piece of 14-count (per inch) waste fabric attached onto the front of the shirt.

[dreamflower]

Oh, waste canvas is a wonderful idea!

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was a lot of fun to stitch and very satisfying to wear.

[budgielover.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful, just beautiful. Could we see the whole shirt?

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Sure, though I'll need to take a photo later today.

[dreamflower]

That would be so cool!

[budgielover.livejournal.com]

I'll be watching for it. Thank you!

[kelbebop.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful! You can see that a lot of work went into it. Great job!

[periantari.livejournal.com]

Very nice job, Allison! =)