Cross Stitch Baby Sampler Finished and Framed!

I finally finished my Baby Sampler for my friends baby, the Christening is next weekend so the timing is good. I framed it in a nice gold frame and used spray adhesive to stick it to the backing. I needed DH's eye to help position it as he's much better at judging the position of things than I am (its that male spatial awareness/female lack of spatial awareness thingy!) . I think it looks quite good, better than I thought it would as I was doing it. As I mentioned in the WIP posts it was quite taxing with stitches scattered all around to make the shaded areas but I'm actually pleased with it. Just hope my friend likes it!

(I've blurred out the date of birth for privacy reasons)

What do you think?

Cross Stitch Baby Sampler - Detail Added

I've pulled my finger out and spent a bit more time on my Cross Stitch recently. I finished the colourwork and started adding the detail using backstitch. I don't like doing backstitch (does anyone?!), I find that I can't see the bigger picture and think it looks rubbish as you are focusing on one small area, so it wasn't until I took this photo that I thought it looked ok! Still a bit more to do on the detail and then put the name and birth details on but feeling a lot better about it now than I was! Still got 3 weeks before the babies christening so I should be ok, famous last words!

Cross Stitch Baby Sampler Progress

I've managed to spend a few hours on the Baby Sampler the last few days and made a bit of progress......

still lots of detail to add but at least I'm making progress!

Cross Stitch Baby Sampler - WIP

I'm making a baby sampler for a friend who's baby was born in August.  She doesn't know I'm making it!  Its supposed to look like this......

but currently looks like this.......

 

so I have a far way to go!  I've found this one quite tricky as its gradual colour changes rather than definate changes like the cartoony images I've sewn previously.  This means that there was little stitches here there and everywhere.  I guess theres a learning curve to each project, otherwise whats the point!  I'm hoping to get this finished for mid Februrary as a gift for the Christening, wish me luck!